{"id":463065,"date":"2021-04-30T19:51:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=463065"},"modified":"2021-04-30T19:51:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:51:07","slug":"vt-army-natl-guard-combat-units-open-to-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vt-army-natl-guard-combat-units-open-to-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Vt. Army Nat\u2019l Guard combat units open to women"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvt-army-natl-guard-combat-units-open-to-women%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=463065&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2403428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2403428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Stephen Maturen\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 4:47 PM PT \u2013 Friday, April 30, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Vermont became the first state in the country to allow women in all combat units of the state\u2019s Army National Guard. The National Guard Bureau recently gave authorization for the guard\u2019s First Squadron, 172nd Cavalry and the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All combat units in the Vermont Army National Guard are now open to women! I\u2019ll have the full story tonight at 6. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WVNYWFFF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WVNYWFFF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FxBybao4f1\">pic.twitter.com\/FxBybao4f1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dana Casullo (@DanaCasullo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanaCasullo\/status\/1388199695378432002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>86th Brigade Commander Colonel Brey Hopkins said there was \u201cno doubt\u201d in his mind that including women in combat units will strengthen the guard\u2019s fighting force.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;There is no doubt in my mind that the inclusion of women in our units makes us a more effective fighting force.&#8221; The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VTNationalGuard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VTNationalGuard<\/a> is the first to open all combat arms units within its organization to the recruitment of women. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HUkHz5z0a6\">https:\/\/t.co\/HUkHz5z0a6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 National Guard (@USNationalGuard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USNationalGuard\/status\/1387759663421313025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Officials said the Vermont National Guard will continue to broaden their diversity and inclusion in the organization.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/dia-china-capable-of-mounting-nuclear-weapons-to-planes-to-dominate-northeastern-western-africa\/\">DIA: China Capable Of Mounting Nuclear Weapons To Planes To Dominate Northeastern, Western Africa<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Stephen Maturen\/Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 4:47 PM PT \u2013 Friday, April 30, 2021 Vermont became the first state in the country to allow women in all combat units &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277119,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}