![]() “When I first got to my unit as a second lieutenant, it was a very big change of dynamic, so a lot of the males were looking at females as being weak, and not being able to do our jobs,” Jackson said. “Shocked? No, because air defense was one of the only combat arms open to females and now in the past years, all combat arms have been opened up but even so, I think we’re starting to have the first, female commanders in those branches, so as time moves on, I think those numbers will increase, but not surprising,” she said.īoth women have served in air defense artillery for about 10 years and said, as women, they definitely had to prove themselves when they first entered this area. Torrealba said she’s not shocked that more women aren’t serving in artillery. ![]() Stephanie Torrealba serve as Air Defense Artillery Operations Officers within the Operations Group at NTC/Fort Irwin. There are more than 427,000 people in the Army.īoth Jackson and Cpt. Since 2016, more than 1,200 women have been serving in those combat arms areas. Women make up less than one percent of those serving in infantry, armor and field artillery in the Army. She is one of only two women at the National Training Center and Fort Irwin who works in artillery. “I completed an OCS (Officer Candidate School) packet and you had to pick one combat arms field and I actually picked artillery but was picked up for air defense artillery.” “The decision pretty much was not mine,” she said. Army, her decision to enter into air defense artillery was not a tough one to make. Jennifer Jackson decided to become an officer in the U.S.
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