{"id":65294,"date":"2016-04-16T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65294"},"modified":"2016-04-16T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T14:35:00","slug":"army-approves-22-female-combat-arms-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65294","title":{"rendered":"Army approves 22 female combat arms applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Reuters<\/a>, the Army has approved 22 women who applied to become armor and infantry officers. Those women are still in their training and not yet commissioned;<\/p>\n

Thirteen have been approved to enter the Army as armor officers and nine have been approved for the infantry. All 22 must complete their remaining training before fully qualifying as infantry or armor officers, the statement said.<\/p>\n

The women currently are in school at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, taking reserve officer training at universities or are in officer candidate school in the military.<\/p>\n

After they are commissioned, the women will have to undergo armor- or infantry-specific training at Fort Benning, Georgia, before being assigned as officers in charge of armor or infantry platoons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Infantry and armor positions are among the most prized assignments for new officers, you know, before they also became political prizes. When I was involved in the ROTC program, most of the male cadets applied for those career fields, but relatively few were accepted. The way it worked back then, West Pointers got first picks, ROTC cadets picked up the slots that were left over and OCS grads got the scraps. Many ROTC cadets picked up infantry or armor branch selections as “branch detail” – in other words, they began their careers as infantry officers, but a few years later they were forced to go other branches like engineer or military intelligence where more slots were traditionally available at the higher ranks.<\/p>\n

So, I really hope that these ladies are prepared to become real combat arms officers for the right reasons, otherwise, they’re taking up slots that are highly-prized, highly-competitive positions and very necessary in The Big Scheme of Things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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