Photo: Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa King, a 29-year veteran of the Army, will head America's only training program for drill sergeants, at Fort Jackson in South Carolina, starting in September. Courtesy of the US ArmyFrom Christian Science Monitor:
Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa King is first woman to head Army's only drill sergeant school.
In popular culture and in real life, the Army drill sergeant is the ultimate incarnation of macho bluster. On Fort Jackson's Warrior Training Ground in South Carolina, Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa King is about to redefine the role.
The 29-year Army veteran and sharecropper's daughter from Newton Grove, N.C., is taking over the reins of America's only drill sergeant school in September. She'll be the nation's first female yeller-in-chief.
Not that the premier US training ground for the straight-backed, merciless drill sergeant will suddenly go all soft and cuddly. Her nickname, after all, is "Sergeant Major No Slack." But her appointment does show the Army's growing willingness to put women into gritty warrior slots once reserved just for men.
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