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Army opens Ranger school to women
Breitbart/AP ^ | 9/19/2014 | staff

Posted on 09/19/2014 1:20:15 PM PDT by bkopto

The U.S. Army is opening the door for women to go to Ranger school.

It's one of the first steps in the broader effort to allow women to begin moving into more grueling combat jobs.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: fail; fairness; militarywomen; ranger; specialforces; usarmy; womenincombat
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To: bkopto
So are we supposed to opposed to violence against women or are we for women having an equal shot at violence? Or is it just the good looking ones we should protect and the ugly ones sent to war?

Women have survived because men took up the duty to protect them, but women felt discontent that men got to do more exciting things than give life to children and raise their children to be productive adults. Women wanted to kill their children in order to live the narcissistic princess dream and party with the bad boys, get punched on elevators and shoot people. They complain about violence and then put themselves in violent situations. Too bad that virtuous men no longer are able to protect women without being called sexiest. They now compete against them, but can not beat them out for a promotion without it being called a good 'ol boys club, if they lose it is because they are not studly enough.

Women you have sown the wind - you will reap the whirlwind. You have destroyed your best possibility of a joyful life that includes: provision, protection and purpose and all for a mess of pottage. You go girl, continue to vote for big government to replace a husband, family law to keep men from marriage, have children out of wedlock, sacrifice children to your own narcissism through the death cult of abortion, eschew the protection of men and go to war. The end of this story is one of terror and slaughter. You go girl, be all you can be, as evil as you choose. You have killed the golden goose, enjoy your meal. Tomorrow you will rue the day that you set out to liberate yourselves from patriarchy. You fear the very thing that can save you and so you plunge headlong unto destruction.

81 posted on 09/19/2014 4:17:01 PM PDT by DaveyB ("When injustice becomes the law; rebellion becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Mears

Rainbow colored camouflaged uniforms will be the future.


82 posted on 09/19/2014 4:17:30 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: bkopto

83 posted on 09/19/2014 4:21:16 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Syntyr; Cecily

She could make it through Ranger training, only if it lasted ten minutes and involved no running, just brainless slapping and punching.

But it’s a little more than that.


84 posted on 09/19/2014 4:22:53 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: jsanders2001

What everybody else said.


85 posted on 09/19/2014 4:38:39 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: bkopto

Graduates of Kilgore College will go to the head of the line for selection.


86 posted on 09/19/2014 4:39:31 PM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: diogenes ghost

The sixth girl (the last one) looks like she might be a real beauty. All of them have nice legs.


87 posted on 09/19/2014 4:49:56 PM PDT by yarddog (G)
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To: bkopto

This wreckless decision rests squarely on the shoulders of CSA Ray Odierno. He pushed it and approved it. He should resign in shame.


88 posted on 09/19/2014 4:59:09 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: yarddog

One of my correspondents is a retired LTC, US Army and he told me that the hardest training he ever did was getting his Ranger tab. This comes from a guy that still looks like he eats rail road spikes for fun.

I’ve seen the tadpoles going through BUD/S at Coronado during my time in the Navy and I know the kind of toughness is required to be a SEAL.

If you want to be in Special Operations you must be willing to do the kind of training they do. Do not expect a special waiver due to your gender. Real world operations, the kind these operators do, are no place for people qualified through affirmative action solutions. It gets EVERYONE killed (qualified and unqualified).


89 posted on 09/19/2014 5:01:25 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: bkopto

This crap will stop when the first female ranger wanna be drowns in the swamp or gets an infection from swimming through that swamp. Those male Rangers are not going to put up with excuses of why you can’t hump your 100 pounds of gear.

Man, have we lost our way.


90 posted on 09/19/2014 5:05:11 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: MasterGunner01

My old man who was a combat veteran of WWII, practically worshiped rangers. I never did think to ask him why but he sure thought highly of them.


91 posted on 09/19/2014 5:10:21 PM PDT by yarddog (G)
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To: TurboZamboni

I’m sure this will increase combat readiness NOT

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That is the goal. Put homosexuals, cross-dressers, and women in combat positions so that US defense readiness is corroded. All part of the larger plan to destroy us.


92 posted on 09/19/2014 5:14:44 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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93 posted on 09/19/2014 5:16:05 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.)
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To: MasterGunner01
About 1/3 of my graduating class of 20 earned their Ranger tabs, and several failed. Others, like me, got their jump wings, but that's as far as it went.

The only way a woman will ever earn a Ranger tab is if they lower the standards. An Olympic class athlete can probably handle the physical demands for a couple of months, but it's the mental side of it that's the most difficult.

Plenty of instances of soldiers dying during Ranger School, usually from hypothermia while running patrols in the swamp.

94 posted on 09/19/2014 5:18:46 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: DaveyB

Hey, not all of us women are as you describe.


95 posted on 09/19/2014 5:27:37 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: bkopto

There are good, useful skills taught in Ranger school. If a woman can pass under the same standards as a man, then good for her. If they relax the standards—almost a certainty—then it’s a useless exercise.


96 posted on 09/19/2014 5:31:47 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: DaveyB

It’s more complicated than that.


97 posted on 09/19/2014 5:32:28 PM PDT by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: Travis McGee

Don’t know about Ranger training program, most can learn Krav Maga if healthy and willing. Like most things, it takes practice & disciplin.


98 posted on 09/19/2014 5:40:38 PM PDT by odds
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Discipline


99 posted on 09/19/2014 5:44:34 PM PDT by odds
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To: Secret Agent Man

Fat chance from me (former 82nd trooper). Sight picture is gender neutral.


100 posted on 09/19/2014 5:56:47 PM PDT by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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