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The first infantrywoman NCO
The Army Times tells the story of Sgt. Shelby Atkins who the Army is calling the first enlisted infantryman of the female gender after she completed some 2-week course alongside her 32 male classmates designed to make infantrymen in Wyoming’s National Guard. Well, see, I dispute the fact that any of them are infantrymen. I’m […]
Read ‘Em and Weep
Isn’t it great that the world is so safe and peaceful these days? Army has fewest active-duty soldiers since 1940, report says I hope the sarcasm in the intro above was obvious. Gee thanks, Mr. President.
No “Boots on the Ground”, Mr. President? Yeah. Right.
As Jonn noted yesterday, we’ve lost another one in Iraq. This brings to 3 the number of US troops lost during combat operations against Daesh. The SEAL (initial reports were that he was a soldier) who was KIA was acting as an advisor to Kurdish Peshmerga at the time. He was killed by direct fire […]
Army Retains SFC Martland
Jonn and I have written previously about SFC Charles Martland and the attempt by the Army to separate him for “assaulting” a child-rapist in Afghanistan. The earlier articles can be found here, here, here, and here. According to Fox News, the Army yesterday changed its mind. They have now opted to retain SFC Martland vice […]
Milley frustrated at Bureaucracy
According to Fox News, the Army Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley expressed some frustration over the procurement process for a new handgun for the military services. The military is trying to replace the M9 pistol they began buying in the mid-80s to replace the venerable M1911. Milley said at the conference that the program […]
SFC Charles Martland; To Free the Oppressed
The Army was supposed to make a decision on whether Sergeant First Class Charles Martland could remain in the Army or not after the 2011 incident wherein he scared an Afghan tribal police chief who was raping a pre-teen boy. First of all, we’re upset that he’s even being considered for elimination from the Special […]
Army; Recruiters should focus on female recruits
Chief Tango sends us a link from the Associated Press which begins telling us good idea that the Army has about recruiting and job-placement. he want to test recruits strength and endurance to determine what jobs they should have; Prospective soldiers will be asked to run, jump, lift a weight and throw a heavy ball […]
This Just Doesn’t Seem Right
During the early part of World War II, the US Army Air Forces had a pilot shortage. A relatively small group of women helped mitigate that shortage through various programs. The first two such programs were the Women’s Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) and the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). In 1943, these two programs and […]
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