{"id":19634,"date":"2017-04-14T17:08:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T17:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/04\/14\/marine-makes-history-as-corps-first-female-tank-officer\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:39:05","slug":"marine-makes-history-as-corps-first-female-tank-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2017\/04\/14\/marine-makes-history-as-corps-first-female-tank-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine makes history as Corps&#8217; first female tank officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In another first for the Marine Corps, 2nd Lt.\u00a0Lillian Polatchek graduated at the top of her class from the\u00a0Army&#8217;s Armor Basic Officer Leaders Course, making her the Corps&#8217; first female tank officer.\u00a0<br\/><br\/>&#8220;I&#8217;m just sort of looking at it as another Marine graduating from this course,&#8221;\u00a0Polatchek described her accomplishment in a Defense Department video. She\u00a0will now\u00a0serve with the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Tank Battalion at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.<br\/><br\/>Polatchek&#8217;s graduating class contained 67 students, five of whom were Marines, a Defense Department news story says.She graduated as a candidate for distinguished honors on April 12 at Fort Benning, Georgia.\u00a0The five-month long course \u00a0teaches prospective tank officers fundamentals, tactics, and any basic armor knowledge that they will need to safely and efficiently operate a tank.\u00a0<br\/><br\/><b> <blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">  First and only female tank officer in the   <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USMC\" title=\"Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/USMC\">@USMC<\/a> graduates at the top of the class   <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A6x1ILGr8U\" title=\"Link: https:\/\/t.co\/A6x1ILGr8U\">https:\/\/t.co\/A6x1ILGr8U<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/womenmakinghistory?src=hash\" title=\"Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/womenmakinghistory?src=hash\">#womenmakinghistory<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Marines?src=hash\" title=\"Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Marines?src=hash\">#Marines<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/htcRURcOrz\" title=\"Link: https:\/\/t.co\/htcRURcOrz\">pic.twitter.com\/htcRURcOrz<\/a> <br\/> <br\/>\u2014 DVIDSHub (@DVIDSHub)   <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DVIDSHub\/status\/852559572204212224\" title=\"Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/DVIDSHub\/status\/852559572204212224\">April 13, 2017<\/a> <\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/b><br\/>&#8220;Learning the importance of planning, maintenance, and understanding your platform as best as you can is what I took away the most from the course,&#8221; Polatchek said in the news story.\u00a0&#8220;A tank platoon has 16 Marines, and that small leadership-size really gives you, as a platoon commander, the ability to directly work with the Marines you&#8217;re leading. I&#8217;m excited to take everything we&#8217;ve learned here and to get a chance to go out to the fleet and\u00a0apply it.&#8221;<br\/><br\/>During the tank training,\u00a0Polatchek learned to appreciate the roles that each member of the tank crew plays, such as the gunner, she said.<br\/><br\/>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to be in the tank commander seat, as a platoon commander, so we got a better feel for all the skill that goes into the other positions,&#8221; Polatchek said in the story. &#8220;You shouldn&#8217;t really ask your Marines to do anything that you couldn&#8217;t do yourself.&#8221;<br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Lt. 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