More female recruits joining Army after change in marketing
Newshub
20 hrs ago
More women are taking their shot in the Army.
The number of female Army soldier recruits has jumped 25 percent in three years, with another 15 women training to become Army officers.
"We're becoming platoon commanders so that we understand what our soldiers will be going through when they're out on deployment," officer cadet Teagan Andrews-Paul told Newshub.
Andrews-Paul, 19, and Elese Russell, 23, are just two of the current officer cadet platoon in the middle of a 15-day exercise in the middle of Waiouru Military Camp.
In one scenario the platoon of 37, both men and women, came under fire from five enemy soldiers just 200 metres away. Their job was to hold their position while they figured out a way to flank them.