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Tactical air control party members control an A-10 Warthog on April 12, 2016, at the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range in Gila Bend, Ariz.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: 1st Lt. Alicia Lacy\/Air National Guard<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n However, in Tuesday’s email, Holliday said the aspiring CRO did not attempt the initial physical test. That airman applied to the first phase of the process to become a CRO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the so-called paper board\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and was invited to the second phase of the process, or a physical and mental screening, a psychological assessment, and then selection. However, that officer chose not to attend. AETC did not immediately respond to an email requesting a clarification on why the Air Force previously said that officer had passed the physical test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Holliday also said that, so far, there have been nine other women\u00a0\u2014\u00a0new recruits to the Air Force\u00a0\u2014\u00a0who have taken the PAST test to begin battlefield airman training, but failed. Four of those women have since dropped out of the running to become battlefield airmen, but five are still working to try to pass it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Physical standards for battlefield airmen are both challenging and relevant, and it’s not surprising that only a very small percentage, whether men or women, will meet the standard required,” Holliday said. “The Air Force has not changed, raised or lowered standards as part of opening up our battlefield airman career fields to women. The mental and physical standards are the exact same standards as before. Any airman or recruit aspiring to enter battlefield airman career fields, regardless of gender, will be accessed and qualified using the current validated standards.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is another female officer who is retraining to become an air liaison officer, and who is the first woman to be trained as part of the new Battlefield Airman Training Group, Holliday said. But air liaison officers were not previously off-limits to women, and this officer is not the first female airman to train to become one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first woman to enter training to become a tactical air control party airman left shortly thereafter due to an injury, the Air Force said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":50259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":67,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[16,67],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3320],"class_list":["post-24367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-your-air-force"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"TTCBHNZLLFFLRH3QGBX5RCV5NQ","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-air-force\/2016\/09\/28\/first-woman-to-attempt-tacp-training-left-after-injury\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n