{"id":96355,"date":"2020-02-26T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T23:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=96355"},"modified":"2020-02-26T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T23:30:19","slug":"report-first-woman-expected-to-become-green-beret-in-coming-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96355","title":{"rendered":"Report: First woman expected to become Green Beret in coming weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-96356 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/green-berets-march-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/green-berets-march-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/green-berets-march-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/green-berets-march-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/green-berets-march.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Soldiers assigned to the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School stand at attention during formation at the Crown Arena in Fayetteville, North Carolina January 16, 2020. (K. Kassens\/Army)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of our ninjas sends us this article about the first female Green Beret, who is expected to graduate from the grueling training in a matter of weeks. I have no problem with this, as long as standards were maintained.<br \/>\nThe source is unnamed, and the story reported to and by the New York Times, so there is an element of doubt. We&#8217;ll find out when we find out, and if true congrats to her.<br \/>\nFrom the article:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle Rempfer<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army\u2019s first female Green Beret is expected to graduate in a matter of weeks, according to unnamed military sources who spoke with the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Army Special Operations Command declined to comment. As of November, only three women had graduated the 24-day Special Forces Assessment and Selection course, Army Times learned previously, and none had finished the entire year-long Qualification Course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a topic that we\u2019re willing to discuss at this point,\u201d said command spokesman Lt. Col. Loren Bymer, citing the reality that the female soldier has still not completed the entirety of training.<\/p>\n<p>The woman is an enlisted soldier with the National Guard and is slated to become an 18C, or Special Forces engineer sergeant, the Times reported. The graduation will be one of the largest milestones since the Defense Department opened all the branch\u2019s combat positions up to women in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Although she hasn\u2019t technically graduated yet, her completion is nearly guaranteed, according to officials cited by the Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2020\/02\/25\/report-first-woman-expected-to-become-green-beret-in-coming-weeks\/\">Army Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, ninja!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers assigned to the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School stand at &hellip; <a title=\"Report: First woman expected to become Green Beret in coming weeks\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96355\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Report: First woman expected to become Green Beret in coming weeks<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,410,406,460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-bravo-zulu","category-guest-link","category-ninja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96355","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96357,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96355\/revisions\/96357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}