{"id":48856,"date":"2024-08-27T17:06:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/08\/27\/triple-tabbed-soldier-completes-ranger-sapper-and-jungle-courses\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:21:20","slug":"triple-tabbed-soldier-completes-ranger-sapper-and-jungle-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2024\/08\/27\/triple-tabbed-soldier-completes-ranger-sapper-and-jungle-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Triple-tabbed soldier completes Ranger, Sapper and Jungle courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Hawaii-based soldier has completed a rare feat: graduating from three demanding courses to earn her Ranger, Sapper and Jungle tabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Lt. Mackenzie Corcoran with the 29th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, is one of a few women to wear some of the most difficult to receive tabs \u2014 an arch worn on uniforms signifying a special skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo one realizes how far our bodies and minds can actually go until we push them to the limit,\u201d Corcoran said<\/a> in an Army release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becoming a triple-tabbed female soldier is no common accomplishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, Corcoran became the 135th woman to graduate and earn her Ranger tab, making her the eighth woman to be double-tabbed with Ranger and Sapper tabs, the Army said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another service member became the first female soldier to complete<\/a> the Jungle Operations Training Course as an infantryman when she graduated in 2014. The following year, the first women graduated<\/a> from the grueling Ranger course, earning the coveted tab. And while the Sapper Leader Course had its first female graduate in 1999<\/a>, it wasn\u2019t until 2018 that the course graduated its first female enlisted soldier<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t