Working Twice As Hard
She shared with Yahoo! Lifestyle, “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.” Ihrke continued, “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
Soon, she discovered that the mental toll could be even tougher than her physical counterpart. She got her first assignment once she was done with boot camp and knew what she needed to do. She shared with the Daily Mail her thoughts: “I came in guns blazing 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