First Female Army Rangers Have ‘Broken The Glass Ceiling’
Two women made history recently when they completed the rigorous Army Ranger training program and graduated from the Army Ranger School at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia.
First Lt. Shaye Haver, 25, of Copperas Cove, Texas, and Capt. Kristen Griest, 26, of Orange, Connecticut, graduated alongside 94 male soldiers at a ceremony on the shore of Fort Benning’s Victory Pond last week.
The nine-week program is described as grueling and tough. “That is one of the toughest, bare bones, you got to get it together, live or die courses that the Army has out there,” longtime Defense Department reporter Gail McCabe said during an interview on “A Closer Look.”
“For these two women to have graduated, to achieve their ranger tab, it has broken the glass ceiling incredibly.”
Haver and Griest may have made it through the tough program, but they are still not eligible to join the all-male 75th Ranger Regiment. However, women may be allowed to join the elite regiment and other special operations teams eventually, according to military officials.
McCabe discussed the history of women in the military, the historic female Army Ranger graduation, continuing challenges women face in the military and more on “A Closer Look.”
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