A dual mile­stone in lo­cal mil­i­tary his­to­ry was ob­served be­tween last week and this week, as the first-ever woman and at­tor­ney were pro­mot­ed to the rank of colonel in the T&T Reg­i­ment.

A brief state­ment by the Reg­i­ment yes­ter­day con­firmed that Col Jozette McLean was pro­mot­ed last Fri­day, af­ter 29 years of ser­vice.

McLean, who served as the di­rec­tor of strate­gic lo­gis­tics, holds a Mas­ters in Mil­i­tary Arts and Sci­ence (MMAS) from the Com­mand and Gen­er­al Staff Col­lege, Fort Leav­en­worth, Kansas, and led a de­ploy­ment lo­gis­tics team to St Vin­cent and the Grenadines in 2021. She was award­ed a Pi­o­neer Award by for­mer Chief of De­fence Staff Hay­den Pritchard in 2018.