{"id":67029,"date":"2016-07-23T11:35:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T15:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67029"},"modified":"2016-07-23T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T15:37:44","slug":"2-female-officers-to-attend-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67029","title":{"rendered":"2 female officers to attend SF training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/story\/military\/careers\/army\/officer\/2016\/07\/22\/female-officers-sfas\/87457530\/\">The Army Times<\/a> reports that two female Army officers have applied for and they&#8217;ve been accepted to attend the Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS) and, upon graduation they will become Green Berets. Nine women applied but only those two made the cut. the other seven will be offered slots in Civil Affairs and PSYOPS branches of endeavor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The accepted applicants have not yet received orders, but they could attend SFAS as soon as the fall when the first of 10 SFAS courses per year begin at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. With a long process ahead, it will be 2018 before anyone in this crop of candidates could earn tabs.<\/p>\n<p>Little information is available about the two women: one went to officer candidate school and the other attended a four-year ROTC program. [Maj. Melody Faulkenberry, a spokeswoman for the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center] cited security concerns for potential Special Forces soldiers. By definition, as officers invited to SFAS the women are either 1st lieutenants or captains, and this cohort of officers was generally commissioned around 2013.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They have a long row to hoe before they join their Special Forces unit;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bulk of the path to earning a Special Forces tab remains in front of them after their application is accepted: the 3-week SFAS itself, Airborne School if not qualified, either Maneuver Captain\u2019s Career Course or Special Operations Captain\u2019s Career Course (12-16 weeks), and finally the 64-week Special Forces Qualification Course. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope they are prepared to work hard and meet the existing standard. Good luck to both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Times reports that two female Army officers have applied for and they&#8217;ve been accepted &hellip; <a title=\"2 female officers to attend SF training\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67029\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 female officers to attend SF training<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67029","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=67029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}