“‘Military family’  takes on new meaning for a set of sisters who made history as the first to both attain the general’s rank in U.S. Army.

Parents and their children, relatives, spouses and even identical siblings have previously risen through various ranks of the U.S. Army together, according to the military service; but this is the first time in 244 years that a pair of sisters — Maj. Gen. Maria Lodi Barrett and her younger sister Brig. Gen. Paula Lodi — is pulling rank in tandem.”