Two Week Training Course Makes Wyoming Woman First Female Infantry NCO
Does anyone think two weeks is enough training to make either a male or a female an infantryman?:
A sergeant in the Wyoming National Guard has become the Army’s first female enlisted infantry soldier.
Sgt. Shelby Atkins on Thursday graduated alongside 32 male soldiers from a two-week infantry qualification and transition course at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center in Wyoming. The course was designed to train soldiers for the Wyoming Guard’s first infantry unit in more than 100 years.
“She’s the first female Army [noncommissioned officer] in the total Army to be granted the infantry [military occupational specialty],” said Jack Harrison, a spokesman for the National Guard Bureau. [Army Times]
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Two weeks is not enough, period.
If I were to ask any of them to list each Battle Drill, and then go through a detailed verbal description of them, I believe only the very squared away Joes and Alices would be able to do so.
You should not be an Infantry NCO if you can’t do something like the above.
Pretty disgusting for past grunts, and especially scary for current and future grunts that could at some point have their asses hanging on the line with one of these rock stars running around as middle managers.
This is an outrage!
Two weeks?
Two full weeks out of a Safe Space… potentially surrounded with trigger words and microagressions?
This is only acceptable if coursework is available online.
Then we can all get our trophies for infantry NCO class participation.
I’m going to be a general as soon as the open book test arrives in the mail.