Canada

This isn't really super relevant, but the fact that this woman trained as a combat engineer is seriously hardcore. It's widely considered to be the hardest course in the military, by a long stretch. You have to do everything the average frontline infanteer does, plus build entire bunkers and bridges by hand, under fire, and handle large amounts of high explosives without killing yourself and all of your section / platoon.

I'm waiting for some mask-off conservative to make a "woke army" comment. I know there's a few that want to, and they're probably seething that they're now unable to without looking (even more) like the chuds they are.

Let’s go!

She joined the military in 1986, three years before Canada allowed women in combat roles.

Training as a combat engineer -- a role in which soldiers clear bombs and erect and destroy battlefield structures -- she rose quickly through the ranks, shattering preconceptions about women warriors.

She went on to become the first woman to lead a Canadian combat unit, deploying to Afghanistan where she narrowly avoided a suicide bomber as well as an improvised explosive device that mangled a vehicle in her convoy.

Carignan has also served in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Syria, led NATO's training mission in Iraq from 2019 to 2020, and commanded the 2nd Canadian Division -- the military's largest regiment with more than 10,000 troops.

About 4 or 5 strong titles in there but let's use "First woman" instead.