More women than ever enter West Point

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<p><a href=“http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/10/ap_westpointwomen_071004/[/url]”>http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/10/ap_westpointwomen_071004/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Cadet Karyn Powell falls in with the guys at midday formation. Same gray uniform. Same straight-ahead stare. Same dressing down from the platoon sergeant for the plebes’ imperfectly kept rooms — except for the bit about long hairs in the sink.</p>

<p>“I understand you guys’ hair falls off,” he tells Powell and her roommate. “Clean it up.”</p>

<p>Powell is among 225 young women who joined the Long Gray Line this year for the Class of 2011. That is the highest number of female cadets in a single class since women first came to the U.S. Military Academy in 1976 and the highest proportion for any class: 17 percent…

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