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Earning Her Stars

Maj. Gen. Hicks' 13-year-old daughter, Jennifer, and Gen. Byrnes pin the officer's shoulders with a second star, indicating her new rank as major general. Soldiers raised a two-star flag at the post. ANNETTE M. DROWLETTE/STAFF
Maj. Gen. Hicks' 13-year-old daughter, Jennifer, and Gen. Byrnes pin the officer's shoulders with a second star, indicating her new rank as major general. Soldiers raised a two-star flag at the post. ANNETTE M. DROWLETTE/STAFF

Maj. Gen. Janet Hicks, the first woman to command Fort Gordon and a soldier who first joined the Army in 1975, is promoted to a two-star general rank as she leads a military post that is the head of the Army Signal Corps. (The Augusta Chronicle, June 3, 2004)