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While at West Point, where she eventually selected into military police, she joined an infantry mentorship group, where the colonel who ran it put them through PT tests and shared their scores over email. I was sometimes in the top third, depending on the event. But that colonel convinced her that a policy barrier was no reason to give up. Following a deployment to Afghanistan with the st Airborne Division, she got the call from a mentor that Ranger school was opening a pilot for an integrated class, and selections were coming up.
The defense secretary had not yet lifted the ban on women serving in direct-combat units, and though the Army was discussing how it would integrate women, it would be a full year and a half before the first female infantry officers completed all of their training and began reporting to the 82nd Airborne and 1st Cavalry divisions. So by the time I graduated, I was an infantry officer. Haver spent her time away from helicopters mulling a huge life change.
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The women faced online death threats, and as a result, the service has been much more tight-lipped about sharing the stories of the female noncommissioned officers who transferred into the infantry, as well as the new privates who began reporting in Meanwhile, Griest tried to shoulder the entire weight of her fellow female infantrymen. While she felt accepted by her fellow instructors at Ranger school, in her out-processing interview, she came clean with her company commander.
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They acknowledged, too, some initial doubts about whether women could make it physically, whether they could pull their weight. He knew she was tough from their time together at West Point. That was, he said, until they got to the mountains and had to do a long march. Lieutenant Janowski was the gunner for a grenade launcher in that mission.
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Except, he said, for one person. She took the weight off me, she carried it for the last half of that ruck. Being a good teammate was their No. But then he saw the two women in action.
She completely changed my mind, along with Ranger Haver. He recalled his own dark-of-night experience, when he had been shouldering the load of a SAW machine gun for three days.
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She had long dreamed of coming to Ranger School, since she was a West Point cadet and a mentor invited her to be part of his infantry training program if she could meet the physical standards. Still, by the time she could enter Ranger School, she had doubts. But she did, and what kept her going through her darkest hours was a drive not to disappoint anyone — her Ranger buddies who had placed trust in her, and the female soldiers who will one day follow in her footsteps, should Army leadership agree to open the school to any woman who can meet its standards.
Now that they have done it, she said, perhaps this means their performance will stand as a strong statement, as the US military decides by the end of the year whether to open all combat jobs to women.
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