STARKE, Fla. – Five years after the National Guard was authorized drill instructor specialties the Florida Army National Guard added another first, by having the first female drill instructor in ...

"It was thought that female instructors could not instill the spirit ... She then went to represent Fort Jackson in the Army Drill Sergeant of the Year contest. "The best part of winning was ...

The Army is looking for more female drill sergeants as it prepares ... Heidi Miranda is the chief instructor at the Drill Sergeant Academy. A combat medic by trade, she was a drill sergeant ...

Delmar Simpson, the Army drill sergeant who was ... with consensual sex as it integrates women into the armed forces. “The message this sends to drill sergeants is this: If you’re black ...

FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) -- Few women make it into the ... Afghanistan and Kuwait. Army officials said about 96 percent of its drill instructors have been deployed to combat zones.

Their purpose, however, is the same -- to take young men and women off the ... Last Friday, the Army Drill Sergeant Academy on Fort Jackson offered the first Drill Instructor/Drill Sergeant ...

The U.S. Army has suspended several drill instructors after they allegedly sexually assaulted a female soldier going through training at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. On Friday, the Intercept reported ...

By comparison, the Army began integrating women at the ... "burnout" factors for the disproportionately fewer female drill instructors, among other takeaways in the 738-page report.

John Spencer — a former senior enlisted infantryman, one-time Ranger school instructor and ... Albright/Army Carter and her fellow female drill sergeants were sent to Fort Benning as part ...