FIRST FEMALE COMBAT CONTROLLER GRADUATES GRUELING THREE-YEAR TRAINING PIPELINE

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FIRST FEMALE COMBAT CONTROLLER GRADUATES GRUELING THREE-YEAR TRAINING PIPELINE


By Matt White | June 24, 2022

For the first time, a woman has graduated from an Air Force Special Warfare pipeline, qualifying as a Special Tactics Officer, or STO, the officer equivalent of the service’s secretive Combat Control commandos.

The woman’s graduation marks a major breakthrough for the Air Force in integrating women into its small but elite ground combat corps, known collectively as Special Warfare. That monickers refers to the service’s only four traditional male-only careerfields: Combat Control, TACP, Special Reconnaissance and Pararescue.

Prior to Thursday, no woman had completed any of the training regimes for those positions. The woman’s graduation was first reported by Air Force Times. Her graduation, which qualified her to wear the the combat control scarlet beret, marks another landmark in women’s slow matriculation into the military’s special operations forces.

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She is an officer,so she will be working inside a TOC,and never go on the ground.

She WILL however,but planning the missions for those who WILL go on the ground,and be back at the TOC making decisions on what sort and type of tactical support they get,and even if they get any.

I will state something now that is so obvious that Stevie Wonder can see it. NOBODY in the military should EVER be in a decision making position for operations that they have never personally been on themselves. And going on ONE hand-picked because it is relatively safe operation" doesn't count. If you ain't dodged the bullets on the ground and made the spur of the moment decisions you had to make in order to survive,you damn sure are NOT qualified to make those decisions for other people who ARE on the ground and dodging bullets and enemy attacks, from the safety of an air-conditioned and heated TOC at some base back in the rear.