{"id":8332,"date":"2015-02-24T17:24:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8332"},"modified":"2015-02-24T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:24:05","slug":"corps-of-cadets-gets-its-first-female-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8332","title":{"rendered":"Corps of Cadets gets its first female commander"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is a very cool development down in Aggieland.<\/p>\n

The Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets — formerly an all-male bastion — is going to be led next year by a woman.<\/p>\n

Her name is Alyssa Marie Michalke. She hails from Schulenberg and next school year she’ll lead the Corps, the A&M student military organization.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.panhandlepbs.org\/blogs\/state-news\/2015\/02\/24\/first-woman-assuming-command-of-am-corps\/<\/p>\n

We talk about gender equality\u00a0all the time. The Pentagon in recent years has relaxed its\u00a0ban on women serving in combat; women now are able to participate in the combat arms — infantry, armor and artillery. Yes, women have been flying\u00a0aircraft in combat for years, be they high-performance fighter jets or bombers or close-support helicopters.<\/p>\n

Michalke’s leadership role at the Corps of Cadets, though, signals a new day at A&M, which for many decades has taken great pride in the military officers it trains.<\/p>\n

The Texas Tribune reports: \u201cIt\u2019s a great honor and a great privilege,\u201d said Michalke, a junior …\u00a0who’s\u00a0<\/strong>majoring in ocean and civil engineering.\u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s been so many well-qualified cadets that have come before me. It\u2019s just an honor to be mentioned in the same sentence as these remarkable young men and women.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michalke told the\u00a0Tribune that she once was\u00a0shy, such as when she enrolled at Texas A&M as a freshman.<\/p>\n

It’s a good bet, now that she’s about to lead the Corps of Cadets, that she’s gotten over her shyness.<\/p>\n

Gig ’em, Alyssa.<\/p>\n

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This is a very cool development down in Aggieland. The Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets — formerly an all-male bastion — is going to be led next year by a woman. Her name is Alyssa Marie Michalke. She hails from Schulenberg and next school year she’ll lead the Corps, the A&M student military organization. … Continue reading Corps of Cadets gets its first female commander<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[175,272,1071,1159,3544,4579,4728],"class_list":["post-8332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-aggies","tag-alyssa-marie-michalke","tag-combat-arms","tag-corps-of-cadets","tag-pentagon","tag-texas-am-university","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}