Posted on 09/27/2015 4:16:03 PM PDT by TangibleDisgust
Multiple sources told PEOPLE:
• Women were first sent to a special two-week training in January to get them ready for the school, which didn't start until April 20. Once there they were allowed to repeat the program until they passed – while men were held to a strict pass/fail standard.
• Afterward they spent months in a special platoon at Fort Benning getting, among other things, nutritional counseling and full-time training with a Ranger.
• While in the special platoon they were taken out to the land navigation course – a very tough part of the course that is timed – on a regular basis. The men had to see it for the first time when they went to the school.
• Once in the school they were allowed to repeat key parts – like patrols – while special consideration was not given to the men.
• A two-star general made personal appearances to cheer them along during one of the most challenging parts of the school, multiple sources tell PEOPLE.
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
Of course it was fixed. No woman one can pass Army Ranger School, Delta Force, Navy Seals, Air Force Pararescue, Air Force Combat Controller, or Marine Force Recon. Physically impossible if they have exact same requirements as men. Requirements were lowered and as a result men will die.
Or maybe not.
Of course the fix was in. Obama is determined to destroy the military.
I just don’t understand this. I spent over twenty years in my own nation’s military and there were plenty of courses I couldn’t have passed - and indeed, one that I actually attempted and failed. I still found a place where I could serve and be of value, and have never felt a failure because there was something else I couldn’t do.
I’d honestly have no problem with anyone who can pass doing these jobs - including women - but it has to be on the basis that they meet the standards.
Knowing that there were standards for the jobs I couldn’t do, made me proud to meet the standards of the jobs I could. Any service is honourable service.
If these affirmative-action “graduates” are involved in action, innocent others will die. Just great.
Amen, and thank you for your service to our Nation.
Indeed! Australia has been a true ally and steadfast friend!
Yes, the fact that leftist magazine PEOPLE is reporting this story out puts its sister magazine “Time” to shame.....they are owned by the same company
Women do not qualify at the US Army Ranger Course.
Special treatment equals they did not pass just like the guys did.
And also some women will die too.
In an economy of dwindling opportunities, these “tokens” actually create set-asides for white guys (to do the real work). In my own experience (non-military - just a basic office environment) men do the work while women have graduated from making coffee and answering the phones to running football pools and shopping online. The lawyers are kept at bay, and men get the work done.
FR was all over this from the get-go. While this ain’t “proof”, there’s too many diverse people to be a conspiracy.
and it does make one pause and go...hmmm.
First place I saw it was from DesertRhino who reported it from Rush, here on a women SEALS thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3326379/posts?page=15#15
I have told that there was only ONE PT standard for Airborne School, and that was the one for 18-20 year olds. No matter what your age that was the standard.
Guys I know close to it still say the two who made it are legit.
I’m not there.
It’s all second hand.
Just repeating what I hear from people I trust.
But that’s also part of the problem. The women who made it may well have earned it - but any hint of special treatment at any stage for anybody raises doubts. If they earned it, they deserve better than those doubts having been created.
It has to be no special treatment for anyone at any time - or even those who didn’t get it or didn’t need it wind up having their achievements devalued.
Why are you commenting on US Army Ranger Training?
Because the same issues that apply in the US military apply elsewhere, and because the US is seen as a leader on many of these things, once you start doing these things, it becomes much harder to resist it elsewhere. It also seems to work to some extent in the opposite direction - what happens in other countries is often used to try and put pressure on American institutions.
Nothing happens in isolation.
Could the guys you know have any knowledge of the extra preparation the women are reported to have received?
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