The Tribune's Facebook page 'smoked' with comments and shares. 'But that's what we're going to our units for,' said Beatty. She also said absorbing all the information in a five-week class was a bit hard to keep up with and she wished it had been a little longer. They were hesitant at first to talk to her or sit next to her on the bus she said, laughing about it, but once they did she said she felt like part of the family, 'like they were my brothers.' They did dead lift squats and bench presses.īeing in advanced individual training with all males was 'kinda scary' she said, 'but everyone's really awesome, everyone was really welcoming.' 'It's pretty exciting.' She said she was doing powerlifting training five to six times a week with her husband long before she started basic combat training at Fort Sill in September. 'I just wanted to pave the path, to show females that we can do it,' she said. Also she can dead lift 315 pounds, just saying.'īeatty was interviewed by Lawton's ABC-TV affiliate KSWO-7 because of the historic significance of her graduation from a formerly all-male MOS. She has the ability and intelligence to take her military career as far as she wants. She is a far better Soldier than I ever was and she will outshine anything I've ever accomplished. 'She would say I was her hero, but truly she is mine.

Katherine Beatty's husband Charlie and their 2-year-old daughter Brylee couldn't attend the graduation, but Charlie sent along this congratulatory message for his wife. However, the entire class and cadre are also in the spotlight, as they upheld the Army's core values, treating her the same as they would any Soldier. Katherine Beatty, the first Army female to graduate as a 13B cannon crew member since the military occupational specialty (MOS) was opened to women Jan. Ma- Much attention has been paid this past week to Pfc.

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