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  • 1998: A woman became the first female commanding officer of a naval shore establishment in the Australian military.[5]
  • 1998: Brigadier Patricia Purves becomes the first British one-star general selected in open competition across the British Army. (The Women's Royal Army Corps, disbanded in 1992, had a 'tied' brigadier appointment.)[citation needed]
  • 1998: Although women had served as pilots during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and a few years thereafter, the Israel Defense Forces had until 1995 denied women the opportunity to become pilots. After the prohibition was lifted, the first female graduate was F-16 navigator "Shari" in 1998.[13]