The article says he credited the 3 first women who graduated from Ranger School. I stopped reading at that point.
Well, you should’ve kept reading. First, he credited:
“Men and women who have preserved the very essence of the human condition stood in that position and took the same oath. Men who preserved the Union [in] a dark period of this country’s history. Men who scaled the face of adversity and liberated Europe from fascism.”
Sadly..., I concur, though who knows whether the author interjected that on their own....
Political correctness. It is the cancer infecting the military services.
It is being drilled into them at every level, and if they don’t bow before it and sacrifice their common sense by making a reference like the one he did to the fraudulent process that produced female “Rangers”, then they all know they won’t have a career.
Simple as that. You suck up and say all the things they want to hear come out of your mouth, and you have a shot. You don’t, you get drummed out.