USS Constitution honors first female chief petty officer

The USS Constitution named one of its cannons in honor of the first woman to serve as a chief petty officer in the Navy. The 24-pound long gun was named Perfectus after Loretta Perfectus Walsh during a ceremony in Boston on Sunday marking Women's History Month, the Navy said in a statement. Walsh was sworn in as the Navy's first chief petty officer on March 21, 1917.

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