FILE - Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Wilma L. Vaught, is honored at the Capitol in Washington, March 2, 2016. Vaugt was the first woman to deploy with an Air Force bomber unit and the first woman to reach the rank of brigadier general from the comptroller field. President Joe Biden will present the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people, at the White House next week. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)