24-Year Old Becomes First ROK Marine Corps ROTC Cadet
Good luck to Kim Sang-a as she takes on the rigors of becoming a ROK Marine Corps officer:
Kim Sang-a, 24, a sophomore at Jeju National University, has become the first female Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadet for the Marine Corps. She will start to receive her training and education next month.
Until recently, female students have not been allowed to apply for the ROTC for the Marine Corps.
Kim, studying in the Department of Marine Industrial and Maritime Police, passed the ROTC screening test in June and completed her two-week military training on Jan. 16 at a Marine boot camp in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province.
Kim’s cadet enlistment ceremony is scheduled for Feb 17.
“Becoming a soldier was my dream,” Kim said.
Born and bred in Seoul, Kim entered the university on Jeju Island to become a female ROTC cadet. [Korea Times via KoreAm Journal]
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Hot! Hopes she shakes Dogu Beach up…but w/o lowered standards…
“Hot!”
A South Korean male would’ve become exempt from the ROK Marine Corps(or any other S. Korean military club) by simply saying or getting his doctor to say that one eye is bigger/smaller than the other. Or else, the oblong head. But, the nostrils should be checked as well. Reject, double reject! Don’t like the medical/doctor excuse path? Then he could’ve joined the group of hundreds of thousands S. Koreans that have gone to America and become another S. Korean illegal alien/visa over-stayer/abuser of the visa waiver program to avoid the ROK military while STUPID Americans fight(or is that play) on the ROK driving their imported cars while drunk, shooting BB-guns at pedestrians, importing drugs, assisting in the S. Korean black-market, assaulting taxi drivers, raping S. Korean grandmothers, spreading HIV/AIDS etc…
Benjo, I would assume she would be going into a support role, but if she can meet the physical standards of ROK Marine infantryman and she wants to do it so be it. Maybe one day we will see her in one of those ROK Marine Corps photos where everyone is lying in the snow shirtless flexing their muscles. 😉