Today a women will be the first to graduate from U.S. Army Green Beret course.
From Stars and Stripes;
An Army National Guard soldier graduated Thursday from Special Forces training in North Carolina and became the service’s first female Green Beret.
The woman received the Special Forces Tab and donned her green beret alongside fellow graduates of the 53-week Special Forces Qualification Course, U.S. Army Special Operations Command said in a statement.
“Thankfully, after today, our Green Beret Men and Women will forever stand in the hearts of free people everywhere,” Army special operations commander Lt. Gen. Fran Beaudette, who presided over the graduation ceremony, said in the statement.
A female officer (Kate Wilder) graduated from that course 10 years ago, but was denied graduation at the last minute. She sued and won, but because she had since been attached to an Intelligence Unit she was deemed ineligible.
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