Looking back, what stands out to you about your experiences as one of West Point's earliest female grads?

You know, that's hard to know what stands out the most.

I think, number one, I'm very proud to be in the second class of women.

What I like most was our model was strength as 181.

And so we, the women, were very close to our male classmates.

We had heard a lot about the integration of women with the class of 80, and they were not nearly as accepted, I don't think, by their classmates, at least not openly then.

I think now very much different.

If you could give today's West Point cadets and young Army officers a few leadership principles to carry with them for the rest of their careers, what would they be and why?