Spouses get a taste of combat on GI Jane Day

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Allyson Schreiber takes aim during a target practice session Thursday at Baumholder’s “GI Jane” day.


Spouses get a taste of combat on GI Jane Day
By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Saturday, March 1, 2008

BAUMHOLDER, Germany — The spouses of Company A were camo-clad and ready for combat, even if their self-styled modifications to the gear weren’t up to Army standards.

“We have some serious uniform violations here,” observed Command Sgt. Maj. Dwight Dooley of the 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment.

“Is that stroller combat ready?” asked Lt. Col. Brian Eifler, the battalion commander. “They’ve got to rig that thing up for combat.”

It was GI Jane Day for the Company A wives of the 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, who spent Thursday experiencing firsthand what a day at the office means for their soldier husbands.

From paint-gun drills replicating close-quarter combat to target practice with M-16s and a weapons-qualification exam, the spouses received a crash course.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=52970

[enlightenment]

1. Okay. I understand what they were trying to do -

and I grew up an AF brat and served in the AF and wore the uniform, fired the weapon, lived the life. I understand.

But there is a BIG part of my female self that read that, mentally shrieking - "GI JANE?????" Can we be a BIT MORE PATRONISING to the little ladies???

rant off/

okay. I'm better now. I think.