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Edna Young

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Edna Earle Young (reportedly died 2012) was a United States Navy sailor. In 1948, she became one of the first enlisted women, and the first black woman, to be sworn in the Navy. Young later became the first woman in United States Navy history to be promoted to chief petty officer.

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