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First African-American female air force colonel buried at Arlington
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Ruth Lucas, the first African-American woman in the Air Force to be promoted to the rank of colonel and who at the time of her retirement was the highest-ranking African-American woman in the Air Force, was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. She was 92.
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