18-women-army-infantry-basic-training

Outstanding.

I believe that over time, now that combat arms is an option, more females will see the recruiting propaganda as more applicable to them, and will help shape their expectations and psychology prior to joining. That will help to create better mentally and physically prepared female Infantry recruits later down the road, and possibly reduce failure rates.

In sure female integration into the general Army was slow at first as well, but look where we are now.

Congratulations to these fine soldiers.

At least this article is a little bit better than the article written for and published by the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.

"About half of the women dropped out of training, at a similar rate to other recently integrated combat jobs, such as combat engineer, Edwards said."
"Right behind them are several dozen more women in the middle of OSUT in 2nd Battalion, 58th Infantry Regiment, followed by hundreds more on the schedule to report later this year."

Definite congratulations!