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You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. Because we do not track you across different devices, browsers and GEMG properties, your selection will take effect only on this browser, this device and this website. Skip to Content. About Newsletters. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon January 19, January 19, History has been made. Share This:. The Army 's first female infantry officer is urging the service not to revert to separate fitness standards for men and women.
Kristen Griest said that evaluating women based on lower fitness standards would not only hurt the effectiveness of combat arms units, it also would hurt women in the Army. Griest's thoughts on the hotly debated issue of physical fitness standards for women in combat jobs are particularly notable due to her trailblazing status. A West Point graduate, she became one of the first three women to earn the coveted Ranger tab in In April , she was one of 19 female soldiers who were approved to attend Ranger School as part of a pilot program to determine whether the Army could safely open front-line combat jobs to women.
She and another woman made history later that year as the first women to complete Ranger School and earn their tabs; a third graduated soon afterward. The Army is considering a revision to its Army Combat Fitness Test, which is currently gender-neutral, to create gender-specific evaluation categories at promotion time.
The possible revision came up after lawmakers became concerned about the fairness of the test, and ordered the Army to conduct an independent review of it. The Service Women's Action Network last year said the new gender-neutral fitness test may not be fair to female soldiers, and that less than half of the women who took the ACFT in the third quarter of passed. The first female enlisted graduate was Staff Sgt. Amanda Kelley, also in , according to the statement. Put in the hard work, put in the dedication to accomplish the goal.
The pair can attest to the effort, and setbacks, that come with attempting the grueling training. The sergeant tried again in and was selected. The first female enlisted soldier to graduate Ranger School, Kelley, said in an Army statement in August that spent five months preparing and studying while deployed in Iraq. Since the first female officers graduated in , more than 30 female soldiers have earned the Ranger tab.
Since , more than 1, female soldiers have entered combat career fields such as field artillery, armor and infantry, according to the Army statement. In November Lance Cpl. Marina A. By Ellen Haring. May 3, Staff Sgt.
First female Ranger grads open up about the aftermath and joining the infantry Capts. Shaye Haver and Kristen Griest talk about their lives since becoming the first women to graduate Ranger school. By Meghann Myers. Amanda Kelley became the first enlisted woman with a Ranger tab last year.
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