"I smell BS."
Posted on 05/09/2015 4:44:39 PM PDT by QT3.14
A new book about a young, female Army officer who routinely accompanied Ranger units on raids in Afghanistan is shining a light on a select group of American women who have made history in modern warfare.
"Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield" focuses on 1st Lt. Ashley White, an incredibly physically fit soldier who joined the Special Operations Command Cultural Support Team effort in 2010.
The pilot program was designed to train women and have them serve with Army Ranger and other special operations direct-action units so they could gather battlefield intelligence by talking to Afghan women in situations where male soldiers had been unsuccessful.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
Comments section is interesting.
gather battlefield intelligence by talking to Afghan women //
if it helps great. Not doing to well passing that physical lately though
They made excellent coffee.
"I smell BS."
Why would we be surprised. They were handed picked, very well trained, were good soldiers to begin with, and they had a very special capability not possessed by any of the male Special Forces soldiers. They were able to interact with female villagers and that was a combat multiplier. Well done.
Special Forces routinely reach out across the Army to find special talents required for special missions. These soldiers get additional training and are integrated into the mission force. Most of these arrangements are short lived and their role is adjusted to fit their set of capabilities. Of course, all soldiers are expected to fight if required, and they seem to do that well as needed.
A specialized mission in a very unique environment does not translate into qualification for the entire spectrum of Special Operations missions and that’s why these people are not full time members of Special Forces.
I think General Betraeaus might be ‘All In’ for meeting some of these chicks. I imagine his fat chick wife has cut him off from bed companionship.
There is definitely a place for women in intelligence and direct operations.
There is NO place for women in the Rangers, Force Recon, or other specops.
OK, here are some facts: The book came out April 21st.
All the women candidates in the first Ranger class just washed out.
And here’s the books author: http://gaylelemmon.com/about
Opinion:
I’ve never understood why femnazis are so eager to see women injected into combat.
Regardless of Steven Speilberg, I read somewhere that very few of the American men in the first landing waves on Normandy, June 6, ‘44 were combat veterans.
Or volunteers.
This smells like Obama agitprop, and even if “factually based” I’m going to guess *that* means, per Hollywood standards or when treating a book as a potential screenplay.
If it is at all true or substantially true, it is already established that women can serve as rear echelon.
The Obamanites can’t have it both ways. Women accompanying Rangers and Marines into the Afghan countryside are not POGs, interpreters or Red Cross dollies. They are on combat missions.
They’re not gonna stop this sh*t, you know....
It's all part of the KGB-directed Anti-War machine; to make Americans unwilling to go to war.
When the day comes that America will no longer go to war in foreign "climes and places", then adventuresome regimes like Russia and China can have their way with the rest of the world.
Getting American women killed in combat, and having the Left-Stream Media show video of the caskets coming home, will presumably be the straw-that-broke-the-camel's-back for the average American's support of foreign conflicts.
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