{"id":81525,"date":"2018-08-31T09:53:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T13:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81525"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:11","slug":"armys-ranger-school-set-to-graduate-first-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81525","title":{"rendered":"Army&#8217;s Ranger School set to graduate first enlisted woman."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_81527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81527\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kellyranger.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-81527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kellyranger-494x333.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kellyranger-494x333.png 494w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kellyranger-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kellyranger.png 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Amanda F. Kelly will graduate from the Army&#8217;s Ranger School on August 31, 2018. Kelly is the first enlisted woman to graduate from the grueling leadership school.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>Staff Sergeant Amanda F. Kelly, 29, from Easley, South Carolina will receive her Ranger tab in a graduation ceremony at the Hurley Hill Training Area at Fort Benning, the U.S. Army base located on the Alabama-Georgia border next to Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>Faye, an electronic warfare technician by trade, is currently assigned to the 1st Armored Division, Combat Aviation Brigade out of Fort Bliss, located in both New Mexico and Texas. Prior to undergoing the grueling 62-day training curriculum at Ranger school, Faye previously served in South Korea for two years before later deploying to Iraq for nine months. She returned to the U.S. back in March.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 12 women have successfully graduated from the course\u2014Army Captain Kristen Griest and 1st Lieutenant Shaye Haver, 25, became the first women to graduate from school back in 2015 before the school was opened to women on a full time basis, according to\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations to Staff Sergeant Kelly.\u00a0 She earned the TAB, she should wear it with pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Sergeant Amanda F. Kelly, 29, from Easley, South Carolina will receive her Ranger tab in &hellip; <a title=\"Army&#8217;s Ranger School set to graduate first enlisted woman.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81525\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army&#8217;s Ranger School set to graduate first enlisted woman.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":81527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81525","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}