Meet the Army’s first female active-duty Abrams master gunner
By Jonathan Lehrfeld
Dec 30, 2022
Sgt. Cinthia Ramirez, assigned to Avenger Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, earns the title of master gunner. (Pfc. David Dumas/Army)
The first female active-duty Army soldier recently graduated from the M1A2 Abrams master gunner course at Fort Benning, Georgia, according to a news release.
Sgt. Cinthia Ramirez, 23, assigned to Avenger Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, completed the course earlier in December.
“I hope I can inspire many others to come and strive to be an Abrams master gunner. It’s not an easy school, but it’s not meant to
e. It challenges our knowledge on [our] platform, to be confident, competent and lethal leaders,” Ramirez said in a social media post.
Sgt. Cinthia Ramirez, assigned to Avenger Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, earns the title of master gunner. (Pfc. David Dumas/Army)
Ramirez, a native of Plainview, Texas who joined the Army at 18, went to basic training at Fort Benning before serving at Fort Hood in Texas as a driver, a loader and then a gunner, she told Military Times in an interview. She also said she served on rotation to South Korea in 2019.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/12/30/meet-the-armys-first-female-active-duty-abrams-master-gunner/
