{"id":61186,"date":"2015-08-04T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61186"},"modified":"2015-08-04T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T16:35:10","slug":"army-opens-field-artillery-jobs-to-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61186","title":{"rendered":"Army opens field artillery jobs to women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/story\/military\/careers\/army\/2015\/08\/03\/odierno-army-open-most-field-artillery-jobs-women\/31083303\/\">Military Times<\/a> which reports that Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno announced that the Army will open most jobs in the field artillery field of endeavor to female soldiers;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the exception of the 13F military occupational specialty, &#8220;we have decided \u2026 we are not going to ask for a waiver to keep it closed,&#8221; said Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno.<\/p>\n<p>This decision, which opens up MOSs such as cannon crewmember (13B) and field artillery automated tactical data system specialist (13D), comes just weeks after the Army opened the combat engineer (12B) MOS to women.<\/p>\n<p>It also follows a decision from more than a year ago to open all field artillery officer positions to women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 13 Foxtrot Military Occupational Specialty is Fisters (fire support specialists) who are usually assigned to support infantry and armor units, so I guess they&#8217;re waiting to see how those career fields fare in the realm of social engineers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve done a lot of pilot programs, we&#8217;ve done a lot of physical testing, we&#8217;ve done a lot of testing on how we integrate women into units, and those are all going well,&#8221; Odierno said. &#8220;We want the best person, if they&#8217;re qualified and meet the standards, we want to give them the opportunity to do whatever they want.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can go along with that as long as they slap the hands of social engineers away from that standards thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to the Military Times which reports that Army Chief of Staff &hellip; <a title=\"Army opens field artillery jobs to women\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61186\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army opens field artillery jobs to women<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}