When the first women graduated from the enlisted infantry course in November 2013, I was exuberant. Deployed to Afghanistan at the time, I remember adding this to my list of updates for our morning staff meeting. None of the men at the staff meeting seemed as excited as I was. Perhaps I should not have … Continue reading Origins of the Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force (GCEITF)
Month: July 2022
Australia: Women in Combat
Of all the visits MCFIO conducted in 2014, Australia was the only country I did not get to visit. I never learned the reason. Perhaps they wanted to give another person the chance at a cool international trip. Perhaps I had made an unknown mistake. Regardless, I stayed home. So everything in this post is … Continue reading Australia: Women in Combat
Breaking Into the Brotherhood 