"Bring Me Men..." Brought Women by Kathleen Utley Kornahrens

On July 28, 1976, into the all-male bastion of the United States Air Force Academy 157 women stepped, challenging the slogan over the entrance ramp that read "Bring Me Men..." These women inspired an upheaval of change in this tradition-bound military school.

Their journey was one of survival in the male-dominated environment, where they struggled to find balance on a seesaw of ingrained gender discrimination and undesired special privileges.

This first-person account tells the story of the first female cadets in the United States Air Force Academy, and their fight to make a permanent place for themselves there.

Chapters explore their struggle to be accepted, the difficulties of the training environment, the camaraderie and conflict with men and the hardships and joys of those who marched in the ranks of that first coed class.

Kathleen Utley Kornahrens is on of the 97 women who graduated in the U.S. Air Force Academy's first coed class in 1980.  She served n the active-duty Air Force as a Computer Systems Development Officer.  She lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina.