Local woman joins Army infantry

Braelynn Riesel of Westmoreland is the first woman from the area to directly join the Army infantry.

Gettingreadys week.

And as newschannel two's gary liberatore shows us.... her journey is making history.

"there are those that see the challenges of a nation and say....send me....."

One of those very brave people is 19- year-old braelyn riesel of westmoreland (braelyn reisel, u.s. army recruit) .

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None tc : 20:04 "i wanted to join the military for a very long time, my brother is in it, hes in the army."

And just like her brother...she is going in the infantry... (sgt.

First class paul gardner, station commander, rome recruiting station) tc : 24:47 "we are such a society where people are always saying when i cant do things, women can do anything they set their mind to.

Ive worked with women throughout the combat arms world and theyre a lot stronger than some of the guys ive seen so its pretty exciting to see a young lady get into it and push her self and see how far she can go sgt.

First class paul gardner is the station commander at the rome recruiting station... and says braelyn is the first female from our area to ever enter directly into the u.s.arms recruiting station.

Tc : 20:38 "its prettawesome, i maynot wans wanted to do iantry but a lot of peoe are like oh ycant df 2016...the first ten women graduated from the united states army's infantry basic officer leader's course at fort benning, georgia... which is where braelyn reising is headed.

Tc : 27:15 "basic training is designed toe hard, its not easy."

Once riesel competes 10 weeks of basic training and then 12 weeks of infantry training at fort benning... she will joins the ranks of only about 600 women in the entire country to have made it througth that training to fight on the front lines.

Tc : 23:39 "i want other women to do this because we can, youre stronger than you think, you can do it."

The first female infantry members of ft.

Drum's 10th mountain division were deployed to the front lines in afghanistan... just six months ago... in march.

Riesel says she is ready to get her military career started at the young age of 19.

Tc : 21:38 "were doing a lot of exercise and ive been doing a lot of watching a videos, if i didnt watch any videos i wouldve just walked into this and been like oh, this is different than i thought."

The videos will become real life quickly... as riesel ships out in the next couple of days.

Braeylyn, thank you for your service.

Gary liberatore, newschannel 2.> the time is ( ).

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