Posted on 04/28/2016 12:32:07 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Captain Kristen Griest will become America's first ever female Army infantry officer as she graduates from training today.
She has completed the Maneuver Captains Career Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, passing a two-month leadership course necessary for holding a command position.
Captain Griest has already completed Ranger and Airborne School and could take charge of her infantry unit of about 150 soldiers in Spring next year.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I notice no other women have passed Ranger training since!
When I was at Jump School in ‘76, the Black Hats never dropped the female officers for pushups. Butterbars like me were dropped at least a half dozen times a day, on top of the hundreds of pushups all of us did as part of training.
Phony as a 3 dollar bill!
Is this one of those PC creatures for which the Army lowered standards to get them to pass?
The entire thing was rigged after women couldn't pass the USMC ITS.
If you have only “misgivings” and believe that this move will up the quality of males, you have never served ...
This is a troop killer.
I did Airborne in 1986. Females PT’d and ran separately. One time they forced us to run coed and it was a freaking nightmare. Men were tripping over themselves because they couldn’t run that slowly.
There were two sets of standards from day one.
Military career[edit]
Griest graduated from the United States Military Academy in 2011.[6][5] She also served in Afghanistan[5] as a military police officer. [7]
Griest began Ranger training in the spring of 2015 as part of a one-time pilot program to see how women would do in Ranger School. She started the course with 19 other women, marking the first time women have ever been allowed to participate through the course. At the culmination of 2 attempts to successfully complete the first phase, all women had failed one academic requirement or another. Griest, along with Shaye Haver and one soldier still in training, was given the opportunity to start from the beginning, commonly referred to as a “Day 01” recycle. Recycles are very common, and are frequently offered to male Ranger students as well. The three of them began training with Ranger Class 08-15. Griest and Haver would go straight through the course without recycling any other phase.
When Griest graduated from Ranger school, the premier leadership course in the US Army, women were not allowed to serve in Ranger/Infantry roles due to the Pentagon’s exclusion policies on women in combat. That policy changed on 3 December 2015 when Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced the US military would open combat positions to women with no exception.[8]
In 2016 Griest became the first female infantry officer in the US Army when the Army approved her request to transfer there from a military police unit.[9]
Source: Wikipedia
A much more Interesting and informative article and comments regarding the above here:
http://www.modernwarinstitute.org/challenge-ranger-school-can/
Actually, a 38 year old mother passed a few weeks after her. THIRTY EIGHT. She’s either an olympian or something is funny.
http://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/ARTB/
RANGER SCHOOL STATS 2011-2015
40.5% overall graduation rate between FY11-FY15.
59.5% overall failure rate between FY11-FY15.
36.5% of students fail in the first 4 days (“RAP Week”)
Ranger Physical Assessment (RPA) – 13.8%
Land Navigation – 12.2%
12 mile foot march – 9.3%
Combat Water Survival Assessment (CWSA) – 1.3%
12.5% of students fail due to Administrative reasons
Medical – 5.5%
SOR – 2.1%
LOM – 2.9%
Admin – 2.0%
8% of students fail due to Academic reasons
Patrols – 4.1%
Patrols & Peers – 2.3%
Peers, Spots, Patrols/Spots, Peers/Spots, and Patrols/Peers/Spots each average to less than 1% of failures annually
Approximately 31% of students recycle at least one phase of Ranger School*
62% of Recycles are due to patrols
*Note: Percentage from FY15; all other percentages are based on average number of attendees per year
If they are filling more jobs with women, they can be pickier with the males they accept. But maybe the tradeoff will be negative as you say.
And a woman!
Yes, the women who graduated were close together.
Haven't heard of any since.
Puts a whole new spin on "your mother wears combat boots!"
I'm sure she's in excellent physical condition, but something is fishy, too. The politics have to be along the lines of the movie "GI Jane."
Filling jobs with women was the navy refrain back decades ago with women on ships of the line - the thought was they would fill the gaps in firefighting ...
Filling desk jobs with women is one thing, filling combat positions with women is quite another. It is all negative with no up sides.
Jaster, a 37-year-old engineer, joins Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver as the only women in the Army to have graduated from Ranger School. They are the only ones from a group of 19 female soldiers who started Ranger School in April as part of the Army’s gender-integrated assessment to successfully complete the punishing course.
Maj. Lisa Jaster, 37, an Army Reserve engineer officer,
Maj. Lisa Jaster, 37, an Army Reserve engineer officer, hugs fellow West Point graduates and active duty officers Capt. Kristen Griest, 26, and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, 25. The three women are the first female soldiers to earn the Ranger tab (Photo: Office of the Secretary of Defense)
Griest and Haver, who attended Jaster’s graduation ceremony, graduated on Aug. 21.
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I hope everyone understands that they will be seeing pieces parts on the battlefield.
5.56mm
Transgender?
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