First female US Army Rangers Friday August 21,2015

Captain Kristen Griest(26) and first lieutenant Shaye Haver(25) become the first women to wear the tab of a US army ranger on Friday August 21,2015 after months of brutal training

An Apache helicopter pilot from Copperas Cove, Texas, Shaye Haver said she plans to return to her unit.

Kristen Griest, a military police officer from Orange, Connecticut, said she’s interested in special forces operations should they open their teams up to women.

Kristen Griest said that she had wanted to become a ranger for years, and both she and Shaye Haver said that they wanted the best training the army could provide.

For now, the women remain barred from serving in the 75th Ranger Regiment, an elite combat unit that has its own selection process. The US military has slowly integrated since 2013, when the Pentagon ended its ban on women in combat roles; after months of review and test cases like the ranger course, each branch must submit recommendations or requests for waivers to defense secretary Ash Carter by January 2016