Working Twice As Hard
“When people think of a Marine, they expect to see a man, but when I showed up to my unit, some people automatically thought that because I was a woman, I wouldn’t be able to keep up or be as good,” she shared with Yahoo! Lifestyle. Ihrke went on, “So my goal was always to push myself to be as good if not better to show them you can be on the same level.”
Working Twice As Hard
Her Alpha Personality
She soon found out that the mental toll can be even tougher than its physical counterpart. Once she was done with boot camp, she got her first assignment and knew what she needed to do. She shared her thoughts with Daily Mail: “I came in guns blazing in order to show that I wasn’t someone that could be pushed around, brushed off, or not taken seriously. It was hard but it was also completely necessary.”
Her Alpha Personality
