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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty percent of the women who join the Army receive basic training at Fort ... closed at night once the investigation began. Her drill instructor was worried about the safety of the women ...

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 ...

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.