COLUMBUS, Ga. (Tribune News Service) — Moments before 18 women were about to walk across Inouye Field at Fort Benning to become brand new privates and specialists, a female drill sergeant offered clarity.
“This is a big deal,” she said to the younger women Friday morning on the grounds of the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center. “You are making f—ing history.”
It was the kind of clarity that only a drill sergeant can provide.