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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
Fair do's...next it will be the first female Gunnery Sgt  |
There already are female Gunnery Sargents in the Marines.It is the seventh enlisted in the USMC rank no matter the field of occupation.
Now a female Gunny that has a combat MOS is probably a few years away for a woman that just enlisted with the Marines unless a woman cross trains from her current MOS to a combat MOS which is now possible and they most likely encourage this as otherwise there would be no female non coms to serve as a role model to lower ranking females.They will also encourage female officers to cross train as well for the same reasons.
It is logical back when they integrated blacks and whites in the military in 1947 what the wiser top brass did was find the blacks that had the best performance and they would put these men into potions of authority first because they knew that any whites that had a problem would would either ignore the race issue because the black solider could do the job well or if they did complain it had no standing.
I remember once we had a female Chief Master Sargent speak (highest USAF enlisted rank) who had enlisted in 1975 and was the first female ever to be assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) very interesting story as few people male or female want this job and can manage to pass the training so she was the only female for a while.she still had all of her fingers which is not a guarantee after nearly 20 years in EOD.
The real military is all about respect and if a person can perform the duty and proves it they will get respect from 99% of their peers.Especially in combat the BS takes a back seat.