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Title: Women in the infantry: How the Army is growing its first female enlisted grunts
Post by: rangerrebew on May 22, 2017, 08:15:37 am

Women in the infantry: How the Army is growing its first female enlisted grunts

By: Meghann Myers, May 21, 2017
FORT BENNING, Ga. — Things are looking a little different on Sand Hill these days, and it’s not just the coiled hair or the female drill sergeants screaming at recruit formations.

When the 198th Infantry Brigade welcomed its first gender-integrated class back in February, months of research and planning had gone into preparing one of the Army’s last all-male environments for the arrival of the first women to enlist in the service’s largest military occupational specialty.

https://www.armytimes.com/articles/women-in-the-infantry-how-the-army-is-growing-its-first-female-enlisted-grunts