{"id":22701,"date":"2020-12-14T22:08:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T22:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/12\/14\/another-female-marine-expected-to-graduate-from-the-infantry-officer-course\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:51:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:51:56","slug":"another-female-marine-expected-to-graduate-from-the-infantry-officer-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2020\/12\/14\/another-female-marine-expected-to-graduate-from-the-infantry-officer-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Another female Marine expected to graduate from the Infantry Officer Course Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another female Marine is on the verge of graduating the Corps\u2019 Infantry Officer Course<\/a> and earning the 0302 Marine Corps infantry officer military occupational specialty, according to the Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That female Marine started the infamously difficult course in October and is \u201con track\u201d to graduate Friday, Capt. Sam Stephenson, a spokesman for the Marine Corps\u2019 Training and Education Command, told Marine Corps Times Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of August, 11 women had attempted IOC, with only two passing since 2016 when the infantry field was opened to women for the first time. In August the Marine Corps issued an administrative message asking active-duty field grade officers who joined the Corps before IOC was open to women to consider laterally moving from their current military occupational specialty into the infantry field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marine expected to graduate Friday did not lateral move, Stephenson said, instead she shipped to IOC straight from The Basic School, the Corps\u2019 initial training for newly commissioned officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\t