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In this picture, a private helps sort the spent shells and machine gun links collected after a training exercise, at Fort Benning, Ga., April 30, 2017. Eighteen women made history last month as graduates of the first class of gender-integrated infantry soldiers, but the Army has sought to downplay the milestone. After the Obama administration ordered the military in 2013 to open all combat positions to women, the Army developed gender-neutral performance standards to ensure that recruits entering the infantry were all treated the same.

private simple soldat / to sort trier / spent (déjà) utilisé / shell ici, douille / machine gun mitrailleuse / link ici, bande métallique (servant à alimenter l’arme en munitions) / Ga. = Georgia / to make, made, made history entrer dans l’histoire / graduate diplômé / to downplay minimiser (l’importance de) / milestone ici, événement (marquant).