Female Warriors

[Markus Becker]

Tanks commanders break gender barriers:

 

https://www.idf.il/en/minisites/soldiers-of-the-idf/tank-commanders-break-gender-barriers/

[Panzermann]

Tanks commanders break gender barriers:

 

https://www.idf.il/en/minisites/soldiers-of-the-idf/tank-commanders-break-gender-barriers/

 

So does the USMC with a butterbar platoon leader:

https://www.businessinsider.de/meet-the-first-woman-to-lead-a-marine-corps-tank-platoon-2017-4?r=US&IR=T

 

 

 

a year or two ago I have watched a TV snippet about a female tank commander riding a Rooikat. She was so short, that she had to put the TC seat in the up position and stand on it. I would have liked to see her change a tire... Cannot find the video snippet now.

[Roman Alymov]

Tanks commanders break gender barriers:

 

https://www.idf.il/en/minisites/soldiers-of-the-idf/tank-commanders-break-gender-barriers/

It was broken decades ago. For example

Valentina Samusenko (1922-1945), started war in infantry but then moved to tank forces, rose to position of deputy tank battalion commander, injured three times, decorated. Died of wounds in Germany (now Poland) in march 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandra_Samusenko

 

Another example - Ludmila Kalinina ( https://topwar.ru/70058-zhenschiny-tankisty-velikoy-otechestvennoy-voyny-lyudmila-kalinina.html) survived the war and lived long enough to repeatedly take part in our events at Kubinka Museum

[Panzermann]

Nachthexen

[Simon Tan]

Soviets are not people. They do not count.

[Markus Becker]

That's a bit harsh. Especially in the context of that war. Stalin was only the second worst thing that could have happened to the former Russian Empire.

[bojan]

...Stalin was only the second worst thing that could have happened to the former Russian Empire.

3rd, Trotsky would be 2nd.

[Markus Becker]

It is scary to think that anybody but Hitler could have been worse for them.

[Roman Alymov]

Another example of "breaking gender barriers": Evgenya Kostrikova (1921—1975) , daughter of famous Soviet leader Kirov (his real second name was Kostrikov). When war started, she was university student - but volunteered to Res Army and after three month courses became medic in independent tank battalion, participated in Stalingrad and Kursk battles (saved 27 WIA tank crew members during Kursk battle, was decorated for bravery). After recovering from wounds in Dec 1943, she was sent to Kazan tank school, graduated with remarkable degree, became T-34 tank commander, tank platoon commander and then tank company commander taking parts in battles for Berlin and Prague all this at the age of 24 and in Capitan rank.

[Dark_Falcon]

 

.@OrHeller reports that #IDF Captain Or Na'aman, the commander of the Patriot Battery of the 138th Battalion was in charge of the interception of the #Syria(n) jet earlier today in northern #Israel. She also commanded the interception of a Syrian drone several weeks ago.

 

 

Source

[Stuart Galbraith]

Mary Ellis, one of Britains last (if not the last) Air Transport Auxillary Pilots dies, aged 101.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/obituaries/uk-mary-ellis-dead.html

[JasonJ]

Mary Ellis, one of Britains last (if not the last) Air Transport Auxillary Pilots dies, aged 101.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/obituaries/uk-mary-ellis-dead.html

 

She looked really good for her age.

[Panzermann]

female paras from Taiwan on an ex in 2012.

 

Female paratroopers pose for photographs after participating in a Han Kuang military exercise at Hsinchu Air Force Base yesterday.Apr 20, 2012

Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

 

 

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/photo/2012/04/20/2008071441

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/04/20/2003530804

[FALightFighter]

How on earth did she get her face paint in digital pattern? I've never seen the stuff go on well enough to get anything but a blob of garbage.

[R011]

female paras from Taiwan on an ex in 2012.

 

Female paratroopers pose for photographs after participating in a Han Kuang military exercise at Hsinchu Air Force Base yesterday.Apr 20, 2012

Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

 

 

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/photo/2012/04/20/2008071441

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/04/20/2003530804

The facial mask cam makes an interesting contrast to the hunter orange helmet cover. Edited August 18, 2018 by R011

[Panzermann]

How on earth did she get her face paint in digital pattern? I've never seen the stuff go on well enough to get anything but a blob of garbage.

 

stencils I guess.

[Adam Peter]

How on earth did she get her face paint in digital pattern? I've never seen the stuff go on well enough to get anything but a blob of garbage.

 

Woman make-up power.

[shep854]

What Adam Peter said: Convince them its make-up and watch out! Just dont expect it to be done in a hurry.

Edited August 19, 2018 by shep854

[Dark_Falcon]

 

First Female Enlisted Soldier Earns Army Ranger Tab

 

Staff Sgt. Amanda F. Kelley's family member pins on her Ranger tab during a graduation ceremony for Ranger Class 08-18 at Fort Benning, Ga., Aug. 31, 2018. (U.S. Army/Patrick A. Albright)

 

A U.S. Army staff sergeant is the first female enlisted soldier to graduate from Ranger School, joining a small group of women to earn the coveted Ranger Tab.

Staff Sgt. Amanda Kelley of the 1st Armored Division became the 13th woman to successfully complete the grueling 62-day small-unit leadership course. The graduation ceremony was held Friday at Fort Benning, Georgia, Megan Reed, a spokeswoman for Training and Doctrine Command told Military.com.

Kelley is a 29-year-old electronic warfare technician with the 1st A.D.’s Combat Aviation Brigade at Fort Bliss, Texas, according to Lt. Col. Crystal Boring, a spokeswoman with the 1st A.D.

Newsweek first reported on this story.

Benning released few details on Kelley’s graduation from the course; officials did not say whether it was her first attempt or when she entered the pipeline.

“Ranger Class 08-18 began the last week of July 2018 with 347 students and graduated today with 127 students,” Ben Garrett, spokesman for Benning’s Maneuver Center of Excellence, said in an email.

It’s been just over three years since the Army opened the traditionally all-male course to women in April 2015. Out of the 19 women who originally volunteered for that first coed Ranger class, Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver became the first women to earn the distinctive gold and black shoulder tab that August.

[FALightFighter]

13 over three years seems about the right amount of volunteers that are physically capable of completing the grueling Ranger Course. I've always said that there are a small percentage of women tha could make it. When you start seeing the usual suspects raise a hue and cry about the fact that far fewer women complete th course than men, then we'll really have a problem.

 

On the other hand, and this applies to men or women, why are we wasting a Ranger slot on an electronic warfare specialist in a combat aviation brigade. There is next to zero chance that they will ever lead a squad or platoon small unit infantry mission, and if they are, we're wasting their highly specialized MOS skills. Until every 11B, 13F, 19D, 18-series and corresponding officers have a slot, spending a slot on an electronic warfare tech from outside the Ranger Regiment is idiocy.

[DB]

You can tell her that. I prefer to keep all my parts intact.

 

[carrierlost]

Video story about two females going through basic training in Estonia including the final 50km hike in full gear. In Estonian.

 

https://www.postimees.ee/6404558/videolugu-naisvoitlejate-raske-lopurannak

[Jeff]

What Adam Peter said: Convince them its make-up and watch out! Just dont expect it to be done in a hurry.

 

Come on soldier, the Communists are invading!

 

I'll be done in a minute.

 

You said that an hour ago!

[Jeff]

Trailblazing female who became infantry Marine is getting kicked out for fraternization

[shep854]

Trailblazing female who became infantry Marine is getting kicked out for fraternization

Sexism & misogyny rears its ugly head in persecution of barrier-shattering female...