INFANTRY(WO)MEN
Eighteen women made history in May of 2017 as graduates of the first class of gender integrated infantry soldiers in the US Army. Despite a 44% dropout rate compared with the men's 20%, the women who graduated all met the requirements and standards set by the Army. The female privates, who ranged from high school athletes to a single mother with a culinary degree, broke barriers within a rigid institution designed for men which now must accept them for what they proved themselves to be- infantrymen.
Photographed at Fort Benning, GA for The New York Times