First Woman Set to Pass Special Forces Training and Join Green Berets

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Source: New York Times

First Woman Set to Pass Special Forces Training and Join Green Berets

An enlisted soldier, she is expected to graduate from the highly selective Green Beret qualification course as a Special Forces engineer sergeant.

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Feb. 25, 2020
Updated 4:08 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — A National Guard soldier is set to become the Army’s first female Green Beret in coming weeks, according to military officials, following the Pentagon’s opening of all combat and Special Operations jobs to women in 2016.

The woman, an enlisted soldier, is in the final stage of training before graduating from the roughly yearlong qualification course, or Q Course, as a Special Forces engineer sergeant. Her graduation is almost guaranteed, officials said, although occasionally soldiers have failed the course this late in the training or withdrawn because of injuries.

A spokesman for Army Special Operations Command would not release any information on the soldier, citing security concerns.

The soldier is one of only a handful of women who have passed the initial 24-day assessment program that acts as a screening process before the qualification course. The weekslong screening regimen tests candidates on fundamental military skills, including land navigation and marching with heavy combat gear before they are evaluated by Special Forces supervisors — and either denied entry or accepted into the qualification course.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/politics/first-women-special-forces-green-berets.html

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1. As a former SOF

guy, well done young lady, well done and good luck on the teams.