REAR Admiral, Martha Herb of the United States Navy, on Monday called upon Prime Minister Nagamootoo as part of her tour here to celebrate the Women’s Army Corps 50th Anniversary.RDML Herb will be in Guyana throughout the week-long celebration. In a release by the US Embassy the Rear Admiral is expected to deliver lectures on “the role of women in an evolving armed forces” and “the effects of violence against women on the whole of society.”

The US Embassy said that the GDF had invited RDML Herb by name to the 50th Anniversary of the Women’s Army Corps for her continued work in women’s integration in armed forces throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The Rear Admiral is originally from Atlanta, Georgia. She was one of the first women officers to graduate from the Naval School of Diving and Salvage in Washington, D.C., and was selected to the Women Diver’s Hall of Fame. She is the recipient of numerous personal decorations and campaign medals.