The Marine Corps released two videos Monday highlighting the first woman to graduate its Infantry Officer Course.
At the request of the officer, the Marines are not releasing her name.
She can be seen and heard participating in the course’s final exercise at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif.
The graduation was Monday at Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Va. The course began with 131 Marines, only 88 made it.
“Well done. Proud of you. But that’s just the first step. Now you’re gonna go out there in the operating forces and we’re gonna give you the responsibility for a platoon of infantry Marines and do your very best to lead them and be men and women of virtue and character and teach them the skills and techniques they need to locate, close with and destroy the enemy,” said Commandant Gen. Robert Neller. “That’s what it’s all about. Proud of all of you. Ooh-rah.”
Some three dozen women have failed to pass the course since women were allowed to apply in 2012, the Washington Post reported.
