"But the statements are false in that women have not been integrated into these small units with the role of direct action, which creates its own subculture." Thirty-two women reported to the first integrated infantry OSUT, where they were assigned to 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment. John Spencer - a former senior enlisted infantryman, one-time Ranger school instructor and current strategy expert at West Point's Modern War Institute - told Army Times. "I've heard that story of, 'Women have been in combat.' That's a true statement - all of these statements are, in and of themselves, true statements," Maj. Some argued that women's unique medical needs would disqualify them, or throwing them into such a macho culture would damage unit cohesion. But gender integration was a long fight, and, at every step, detractors within and outside the Army argued that women weren't physically up to the challenge.
"Female gender integration is new to the infantry branch, but it's not new to the Army." Officials across the Army, all the way up to Sergeant Major of the Army Dan Dailey, had similar things to say - that the Army has been training men and women together and deploying them together for decades, and this move is largely business as usual. Seth Davis, a One Station Unit Training company commander, told Army Times on April 30. "There hasn't been any light bulb moment of surprises," Capt.
When the 198th Infantry Brigade welcomed its first gender-integrated class back in February, months of research and planning had gone into preparing one of the Army's last all-male environments for the arrival of the first women to enlist in the service's largest military occupational specialty. Things are looking a little different on Sand Hill these days, and it's not just the coiled hair or the female drill sergeants screaming at recruit formations.
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