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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe Army Times tells the story of Sgt. Shelby Atkins who the Army is calling the first enlisted infantryman of the female gender after she completed some 2-week course alongside her 32 male classmates designed to make infantrymen in Wyoming’s National Guard. Well, see, I dispute the fact that any of them are infantrymen. I’m pretty sure that no matter how intensive the training is, that’s not enough time to teach someone to lead infantrymen into battle, no matter what they have between their legs. <\/p>\n
Atkins, who was a horizontal construction engineer before switching military occupational specialties, was one of at least two female soldiers who attended the infantry qualification and transition course, said Deidre Forster, a spokeswoman for the Wyoming Guard. Atkins, who has deployed to Bahrain, was the only female graduate, Forster said.<\/p>\n
Atkins was not available for an interview.<\/p>\n
She, along with her fellow graduates, will be assigned to C Company, 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment. This company-sized element will be the first infantry unit in the Wyoming Guard in more than 100 years; it is scheduled to be activated in July, Forster said.<\/p>\n
The company will replace the 1041st Multi-role Bridge Company, which officials last year announced would be deactivated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The article says that real infantry NCOs trained them – well, then why aren’t the Iraqis kicking ass against ISIS? The US troops have been training Iraqis for months and years. If I had been sent to Wyoming’s Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center to train these people, I would have found it real difficult to keep a straight face. <\/p>\n
The only school I ever attended in the Army that was two weeks in duration was the Cadet Command School which was basically a block of instruction on how to brief the Cadet Command CG (Commanding General) when he came around to your school. Two weeks isn’t time enough to learn anything except to prepare a PowerPoint slide show – certainly not to convince people that they’re ready to be infantry NCOs and lead troops into ground combat.<\/p>\n
So my problem isn’t that the Army is calling Sergeant Atkins an infantryman, it’s that they’re calling any of those people infantryman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"