#many municipal governments qualify any service that didn't receive a dishonorable discharge

[cesium-sheep]

yknow that's kinda worth reiterating on its own, that I was one of the first females to ever enlist in a true combat mos. my name's not gonna be remembered for it or anything, since by the time I actually started training (I went through the enlistment process during my last quarter of college so I signed the papers the day the mos opened but the first female to start combat training graduated while I was still in basic) there was a half platoon of us going through at once, and I didn't actually finish ait due to the drastic worsening of my now debilitating and potentially fatal immune disorder. (altho I only missed minesweeping and ceftx.)

but I was one of the first.

(I say "females" because "women" isn't correct cuz I'm not a woman and I am 1000% positive there have been some trans women in combat mos prior to 2015. and "afab people" isn't correct because if a transmasc had already medically and socially transitioned prior to enlistment, it may be a little complicated depending on the paperwork but they would probably have been allowed in with minimal issue. so "females" is really the closest to a correct term there is, and it's the one they use.)

(also to clarify this does not include combat medics, who god love and keep them do go into combat zones, but they are not legally combatants. there have been female combat medics for a significant amount of time. and for a significant amount of time that's the closest we were allowed to get.)