Posted on Apr 27, 2016
Meet the Army's first female infantry officer
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Capt. Kristen Griest, one of the first women to earn the coveted Ranger tab, will once again make history by becoming the Army’s first female infantry officer.
Griest is expected to graduate from the Maneuver Captain's Career Course on Thursday wearing the distinctive blue infantry cord, officials confirmed to Army Times.
"Like any other officer wishing to branch-transfer, Capt. Griest applied for an exception to Army policy to transfer from military police to infantry," said Bob Purtiman, a spokesman for the Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning, Georgia. "Her transfer was approved by the Department of the Army [on Monday] and she's now an infantry officer."
More women are expected to follow in her footsteps; the Army earlier this month announced that it had approved requests from 22 female cadets to enter as second lieutenants in the infantry and armor branches. Thirteen of the new officers will enter into the armor branch, the other nine will go infantry. After commissioning, the new officers must successfully complete branch-specific training before they will qualify as infantry and armor officers.
Griest is expected to graduate from the Maneuver Captain's Career Course on Thursday wearing the distinctive blue infantry cord, officials confirmed to Army Times.
"Like any other officer wishing to branch-transfer, Capt. Griest applied for an exception to Army policy to transfer from military police to infantry," said Bob Purtiman, a spokesman for the Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning, Georgia. "Her transfer was approved by the Department of the Army [on Monday] and she's now an infantry officer."
More women are expected to follow in her footsteps; the Army earlier this month announced that it had approved requests from 22 female cadets to enter as second lieutenants in the infantry and armor branches. Thirteen of the new officers will enter into the armor branch, the other nine will go infantry. After commissioning, the new officers must successfully complete branch-specific training before they will qualify as infantry and armor officers.
Meet the Army's first female infantry officer
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I think it is good to have diversity in leadership good for the organization. I actually work with MAJ Lisa Jaster the reserve female that completed ranger training
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Thanks for the update SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL. I am still having trouble adjusting to the title of the Maneuver Captain's Career Course. I went through the Infantry Officers Advanced Course at Fort Benning in 1984 and later the Combined Arms and Services Staff School in 1986 after company command. Both IOAC and CAS3 are now schools that were eliminated many years ago.
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SPC Nancy Greene
Some of the schools actually changed names and the materials covered in some of the courses were included in other courses. I ran into this a lot when computing promotion points. PLDC and BLC were once referred to as BNOC and PNOC or maybe it was the other way around. Anyway, the courses contained the necessary information and met the requirements for promotion.
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