Capt. LeeAnn Roberts is a military assistance training team leader at Al Kasik Training Base in Iraq, where she is the only woman among 8,000 personnel. She tells USAF journalist SrA. Mark Woodbury that the Iraqi recruits were hesitant at first to take instruction from a woman, but that changed when they realized she was an expert at her job, teaching policing and military skills. The first group she trained called her “my sister,” and it has stuck from group to group. She served in the Army for 12 years before making the leap from green to blue.
Active-Duty Airmen only have a few days left to submit an official waist-to-height ratio into the Air Force’s new online application. But the service clarified July 23 that this first body composition measurement is not meant to be scored as part of the new Physical Fitness Readiness Assessment, or PFRA