Saturday, June 8, 2019

No CIB? Laura Yeager to become Army's 1st female infantry division commander

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Brig. Gen. Laura Yeager is set to make history this month when she becomes the first woman ever to command a U.S. Army Infantry Division.

Yeager, a former Black Hawk helicopter pilot, will command the California National Guard’s 40th Infantry Division, the Orange County Register reported Friday. She will take over on June 29 for Maj. Gen. Mark Malanka, who is retiring.

Yeager became a second lieutenant in the Army in 1986 and completed military helicopter training three years later. She then began her service as a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter aeromedical evacuation pilot

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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 9, 2019 at 12:56 AM

    No worries. She will retire long before a California national guard will ever be needed in combat. It's a figurehead job.

    --generic

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  2. AnonymousJune 9, 2019 at 3:20 PM

    So glad to be out of Commiefornia.
    They don't carry guns for good reason, many of them don't know how to act.
    LK

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    1. Brock TownsendJune 9, 2019 at 3:46 PM

      :) Where are you now?

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    2. AnonymousJune 10, 2019 at 11:43 AM

      'And if I die in Raleigh, at least I will die free. So rock me mama any way you feel, rock me mama like a wagon wheel.'
      LK

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    3. Brock TownsendJune 10, 2019 at 1:31 PM

      My parents, grandparents and more are buried in the old cemetery there and only separated by a walking path to the Confederate side.

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  3. DanJune 9, 2019 at 9:50 PM

    Many of these Politically Correct promotions and positions are perfectly fine.....as long as the US doesn't have to fight a serious war. Like Gen. Mclellan of the Army of the Potomac, many of them are EXCELLENT organizers and bureaucrats capable of running things in a businesslike manner. But war is seldom businesslike. When things get ugly we need fewer trophy commanders and more fighters. The problem is a lot of good soldiers die while waiting for candy assed organizers to get replaced with competent fighters.

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    1. Brock TownsendJune 9, 2019 at 10:12 PM

      Hear! Hear!

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    2. AnonymousJune 10, 2019 at 7:57 PM

      Sadly, the us army has no way to even recognize competent fighters, let alone create a system that promotes them to generals. So far we pretty much go on "guys over 6 ft who run marathons". And we have plenty of those.

      --generic

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    3. Brock TownsendJune 10, 2019 at 8:25 PM

      we pretty much go on "guys over 6 ft who run marathons".

      :(

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  4. G.W. LongJune 10, 2019 at 11:10 AM

    Definitely a Diversity Hire. Another form of Equal Opportunity.

    For a GREAT READ check out Kurt Schlichter's, Kelly Turnbull Series, starting with "The People's Republic," (2016).

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