This sergeant is the Army's first female enlisted infantry soldier

Congratulations to the entire graduating class!

This is interesting to me. I know several Soldiers who went split ops into the Infantry because it was the shortest MOS school. I'll be reclassing to 92Y (supply specialist) through the NG soon, and have been told it is a 4 week class (as opposed to the 8 week AIT class). Since the Infantry has a OSUT of 14 weeks, if you take away the 9 weeks of BCT, they have an "AIT" of 5 weeks. Since they scale back the training time for Soldiers just changing their MOS, why do people only see this as an issue because she's a female and not because 2 weeks isn't a long time to learn a new job? No one knows the job going in to training male or female...

This is not against women or National Guard. All the feminist and people who do not see the problem with this take a second with me. We can be leaders, we can be fighters. When it comes to those who chose fighting as a profession and became leaders in their chosen profession, we have a to respect that. Respect the fact that they have started from the bottom, absorbing tactics and repeating Battle Drills until they were killed by boredom. They went to war and proved their proficiency in their chosen profession. They moved up through the ranks and position to lead. They understand what every Soldier under them is going through. They know what it feels like to not have an AB when carrying the M240. They know what it's like to wear the same pants for 7 days because the other pairs were blown off the outside of the Bradley by a double stacked IED. Their rank was earned. Their position amongst their platoon is even more important. It's a position of trust. A trust that is only given to those leaders who have demonstrated a level of competence and confidence that says "do it, it can be done, because I have have done it!"