She strode like a female sergeant, around to the terrace and across it, and along the path.

The tall female sergeant stepped up, took Claudia's hands, and lifted them high between her shoulder blades.

They sued the city, and in 1965 they became the department's first female sergeants.

The female sergeant's eyes shone with delight and fervor.

The M-2 rated a lieutenant-colonel office boy, plus a black female gunnery sergeant as a personal secretary.

The monitor stopped as if by its own volition on the face of the female sergeant who'd summoned him from the armor fitting.

"Now that's not fair," the female sergeant snapped as she hooked up the gravity feed to the stutter gun.

Those promoted included 48 women, the largest female sergeant's class in the department's history.

He had a notion one addressed female sergeants as ma'am.

He cites a tearful female sergeant who sought him out to deliver a three-page plea to "speak truth to power" in Washington.