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Army reviews whether women can go to Ranger school
Associated Press ^ | May 16, 2012 | LOLITA C. BALDOR

Posted on 05/16/2012 11:04:05 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Army leaders have begun to study the prospect of sending women soldiers to the service's prestigious Ranger school - another step in the effort to broaden opportunities for women in the military.

Gen. Raymond Odierno, Army chief of staff, says he's asked senior commanders to provide him with recommendations and a plan this summer.

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To: Free ThinkerNY

Big mistake.


41 posted on 05/16/2012 11:42:35 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: circlecity

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304746604577384021387990452.html

Her regimen is a brutal, six- (sometimes seven) day-a-week mix of roller skiing, biking, running and strength training. Pull-ups are a fairly unpleasant experience for most humans, but the ones Ms. Randall does resemble a form of medieval torture. She straps on a belt with a chain dangling from it and attaches a 60-pound weight to it. Or she’ll pull herself up with such power that she is able to clap her hands above the bar and then grab it to slowly lower herself. Eight is her record.

All of that and a very nice smile!


42 posted on 05/16/2012 11:47:02 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: US Navy Vet

Yeah, and the U.S. navy issues bottoms with nametags over the buttocks so that Seamen will remember the name of who they were with the night before.

Rum Sodomy and the Lash - as Winston Churchill would have it.

USAF!!!! ;)


43 posted on 05/16/2012 11:47:35 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to DC to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
It might be helpful to read the rest of the article:

He says if women are eventually allowed to serve in the infantry, they would have to go to Ranger school in order to be competitive with their male counterparts as they move through the ranks.

Going to Ranger school does not automatically mean they would be allowed to serve in one of the Army's three elite Ranger battalions, which are Army special operations forces. Women are not allowed to serve as special operators.

44 posted on 05/16/2012 11:48:10 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: achilles2000

“and her navigator killed.

I thought her RIO survived. He saw what was happening and punched out; she would have flown that thing all the way to the water screaming.


45 posted on 05/16/2012 11:49:00 AM PDT by CodeToad (Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called “gay” instead.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is, simply put, the most asinine proposal of the century.
All it will accomplish will be to relax the standards for our most elite military groups and make liberals “feel good”.

We can’t get the boy emperor out of office fast enough.


46 posted on 05/16/2012 11:49:30 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (End Obama's War On Freedom.)
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To: jimfree

I was in the F-14 Community(VF-111) as an TARPS Intel Analyst 1988-1991, had a front row seat to the carnage my Navy inflicted upon itself as a result of Tailhook ‘91.


47 posted on 05/16/2012 11:50:02 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: CodeToad

I think he died, but I could be wrong.


48 posted on 05/16/2012 11:51:34 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: allmendream; US Navy Vet

Now it’s two on one.


49 posted on 05/16/2012 11:51:53 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: US Navy Vet
The F-14 she crashed, how much did it cost us taxpayers?
50 posted on 05/16/2012 11:52:22 AM PDT by Realman30 ("I've already made a donation to Haiti. It's called taxes". . . . El Rushbo.)
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To: Ole Okie

Actually, I have! I don’t think they’re snake eaters though! ;^)


51 posted on 05/16/2012 11:53:20 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I got my Ranger tab about a month and a half ago. Still have yet to fully recover. If they keep the same standards, no woman could do it. A woman could do certain aspects of it, but none I have ever seen would be able to complete the entire course.

And I cannot imagine the RIs changing their demeanor. That would mean lawsuits. Lots of 'em.

52 posted on 05/16/2012 11:53:59 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: CodeToad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Hultgreen
You are right her RIO BARELY survived.


53 posted on 05/16/2012 11:55:13 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
"She straps on a belt with a chain dangling from it and attaches a 60-pound weight to it."

I never got as much out of adding weight to a pull up as I did from just increasing repetitions or making pull ups part of an intense superset or triset. But whatever works for you in this regard - DO IT!

54 posted on 05/16/2012 12:10:22 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: CodeToad
I thought her RIO survived.

Correct.

55 posted on 05/16/2012 12:26:21 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Yep, just as long as the _exact_ same standard are kept. That includes combat loads and injured comrade carry requirements.


56 posted on 05/16/2012 12:30:32 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Free ThinkerNY
...sending women soldiers to the service's prestigious Ranger school - another step in the effort to...gut the military.
57 posted on 05/16/2012 12:33:52 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

There are increasing numbers of people around the world who either want to eat our lunch of just plain kill us. The world economy is tottering and desperate nations and politicians do desperate things. This BS PC social engineering of our military is going to come back and bite us in the ass. We are going to face a real 1st world opponent sooner or later, probably sooner, and they are going to clean our clocks. We will be faced with surrender or going nuclear. Think it can’t happen? Watch.


58 posted on 05/16/2012 12:39:20 PM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: US Navy Vet; achilles2000

I thought the RIO survived?

I read somewhere that he initiated the ejection sequence, but by the time she was ejected 0.4 seconds later, the aircraft had rolled to where she ejected straight down into the sea, killing her instantly.


59 posted on 05/16/2012 12:39:44 PM PDT by FortWorthPatriot (Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Whiskey Rangers. God help us.


60 posted on 05/16/2012 12:41:32 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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