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Army’s first woman cannoneer finishes top of class » TRADOC

FORT Sill, Okla. (March 10, 2016) — Sometimes a person is just in the right place at the right time. And so it was for Pfc. Katherine Beatty when she learned her chosen military occupational specialty, or MOS, in signal intelligence wasn’t going to work out. Then came an offer too good to pass up.…

FORT Sill, Okla. (March 10, 2016) — Sometimes a person is just in the right place at the right time.

And so it was for Pfc. Katherine Beatty when she learned her chosen military occupational specialty, or MOS, in signal intelligence wasn’t going to work out. Then came an offer too good to pass up.

Why not be the Army’s first female cannoneer?

“They said I could pick a different MOS,” she said of her nine-week holdover after basic combat training. The combat specialty of 13B cannon crewmember was on the list. “They said there was a lot of heavy lifting, and it’s a pretty high speed job, and I would be the first female. I was pretty excited about it. I called my husband (in Inverness, Fla.) He’s infantry and works side by side with 13 Bravos. He told me what to expect and I just went for it.”

via www.tradocnews.org

Well, we wish her the best of luck.

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  1. ultimaratioregis

    We shall see if she is “first in her class” when unloading the third ammo truck in an hour in the mud at 0330 after two days without sleep.

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  2. RetRsvMike

    So now the red legs are taking the cast-off flunkies from the sparky school???
    Oh yeah, that’ll work out just super!

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  3. timactual

    “He’s infantry and works side by side with 13 Bravos.”
    What kind of unit would that be? Can someone enlighten me?
    She and her Infantry husband have a two year old daughter. I may be a cantankerous, narrow-minded old man but I consider this to be child abuse.

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  4. Quartermaster

    No idea what kind of unit an 11B would work side by side with 13B.
    Inverness, FL? Either he’s ARNG or Reserve, and then he wouldn’t work “side by side” with 13Bs.

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  5. Nik

    Would that make her a cannon-cockette?

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