"That's a hell of a price to pay for being stylish!"
Posted on 12/06/2014 6:40:45 PM PST by smokingfrog
The U.S. Army’s plan to conduct an integrated Ranger School assessment in 2015 is looking good — interest is so high that the number of female volunteers must be cut to 160 candidates.
All women selected by their commands and units will take part in the two-week Army National Guard Ranger Training and Assessment Course. Those who successfully complete the pre-Ranger course at Fort Benning, Georgia, will then move on to Ranger School, which is held 11 times a year.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
You mean kind of like our public school system?
"That's a hell of a price to pay for being stylish!"
Rangers [lead] led the way!
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Hey Girl - There weren’t any females in my unit in basic in 1982. What the hell? Were you on tank hill?
A 100 lbs pack is a 100 lbs pack. After a while it comes down to physics.
Good old Ft. Jackson, I went there for my Navy induction physical in ‘62 and ten years later began to service printing equipment there. I still had that job in ‘79 but I don’t recall whether I made any trips to the fort that year. I had a territory where I live now but sometimes if I got caught up I would go to Columbia and work a couple of days.
They were expecting it, but not willingly and the rank and file within the Ranger community feel betrayed by the Army leadership from Odierno on down. This is a purely political driven decision, made for all the wrong reasons and will have far reaching, debilitating consequences.
I'm getting conflicting signals below the equator. It's a weird up-down-up-down thing.
Well, we have the metric system.
And then new math.
And now male lbs., and female lbs.
they may lower the standards to help the ladies but you can be sure ISIS/al qaeda won’t be kinder and gentler to help them.
The army already has different standards for males and females. I’d like to see anyone hump those packs of a hundred pounds. I was helping to take some wounded rangers off a helicopter once, and reached with my right hand to grab one guy’s pack when 2 other guys grabbed his litter. Instead of it lifting, I fell forward ‘til I caught my balance. Then I used both hands to lift it out.
This is not a game we’re playing. I was a very fit chaplain if you go by my PT scores.
We had a lieutenant — excellent shape, could run like the wind and all day long. But he was skinny. Ranger school beat him down. He came back and said he barely passed. The upper body requirements took everything he had. Stamina was important, but strength just as important.
Yeah, I’ve actually humped a 120 lb pack - not far, not well. Poor planning and packing ruined that part of what was otherwise a pretty fun trip. What’s that adage about hard-learned lessons? ;-) That was an odd one. I’ve been exhausted before from physical exertion. But that time, I could feel I was out of energy. Hard to explain but it was different than simply being tired.
From the link it says...
Like the Marine Corps infantry training courses, Ranger School standards “are going to stay the same,” Fivecoat said. “We have definitive standards that we apply to every Ranger student; if they can meet them, they will be successful.”
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If I'm a Ranger and I get in deep do-do, I don't want some affirmative action wussy guarding my back. Oh, yeah, if the Army thinks they can have female Rangers do admin jobs and not deploy them into combat zones, what's the point — a neat shoulder flash? Bravo Sierra . . . Rangers lead the way!
I think the reasoning is they won’t have to hump the heavy loads anyway. The next few wars will be extremely clean affairs. A bad guy on a screen, a drone strike controlled by some pilots in his PJs and the Rangers will just be there long enough to collect DNA to verify. /s/
They look so pretty in their dress greens....NOT! When I went through basic in 82, men & women did not train together, but were in separate platoons/classrooms to avoid distraction. I have my doubts that there could be more than a handful of females nationwide that could meet the male standards of selection and the school itself....to lower the training standard is an insult to every male who earned the tab, as well as Army core values itself.
About as useless as a male egg donor.
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