Posted on 09/10/2018 10:26:14 AM PDT by pboyington
The lies from Fort Benning just keep on comin’…
In 2015, former Secretary of Defense Ash and Trash Carter desperately needed some proof; real or fraudulent, that women could hack it in the combat arms. The $36 million dollar, Marine Corps study couldn’t do that. It clearly showed in minute detail how all female and coed units were slaughtered by all male units in simulated combat.
Enter Captain Griest and First Lieutenant Haver, who, along with several other females, were attending Ranger School down at Fort Benning, Georgia. The word quickly went out. There would be one or two Lady Rangers presented to the world, in order to give Carter the ‘proof’ he needed to authorize women to serve in the combat arms and special operations forces of the US military.
As Griest and Haver went through the grueling course and then ‘graduated’, rumors began to seep out that they were being given special treatment in the form of dieticians, endless chances to repeat the school, multiple opportunities to pass patrols, showers every three days and pink curtained cat holes for privacy. Fueling the fire was their plump appearance at graduation. Normally, Ranger School males look like Japanese POW camp survivors on graduation day, strangely, the ladies looked well fed.
People Magazine reporter, Susan Keating seemed to confirm the rumors in her September, 2015 in article titled, ‘Was It Fixed? Army General Told Subordinates: ‘A Woman Will Graduate Ranger School,’ Sources Say.’
Keating’s story was quickly lambasted by former Ranger Training Brigade Commander, Colonel David Fivecoat and former Fort Benning Maneuver Center commander, General Scott Miller, who both adamantly claimed that there was no special treatment given to Griest and Haver, while demanding that Keating reveal her sources.
Instead of maintaining the standards, Fivecoat and Miller were more interested in persecuting whistleblowers.
Meanwhile, US Defense Watch was given documents that showed Haver had been one of 50 women at Fort Carson, who spent 90 straight days preparing for Ranger School. In fact, Haver flunked land navigation repeatedly at Carson and should never have been sent to Benning in the first place. Even in the days of GPS, a Ranger who can’t use a map and compass is as worthless as a golfer who can’t putt.
Miller was promoted to four star general and is currently serving as commander of all US-led forces in Afghanistan. Fivecoat retired with a full pension and Tricare benefits.
While Keating’s article hit the Internet, Congressman Steve Russell, a former army officer and Ranger School graduate demanded to see the Ranger School records for Griest and Haver. His attempts to obtain the records were repeatedly thwarted by Secretary of Army John McCone.
Russell was then informed that both Griest and Haver’s records had been destroyed, in violation of army policy. Russell’s requests to view the Green Cards, or Ranger School transcripts for the two women were also denied. To date, Russell has received nothing from the army.
Two months later, Major Lisa Jaster, a 37 year old mother of two ‘graduated’ from Ranger School, in what can only be described as a Diversity Bridge too Far, in the army’s attempts to prove that women can successfully graduate from the course. A 37 year old man graduating from the school is miraculous, a 37 year old mommy of two graduating is a fraud.
After Mommy Ranger’s graduation, another baker’s dozen of female graduated from the school in the last three years.
It was hoped that Secretary of Defense James Mattis would eradicate the PC madness infecting the military, but to date, Mattis has shown himself to be just as worthless as Ash Carter.
Since 2015, the army believed it was doing a successful job of covering up what was really going on at Benning, a conspiracy to defraud the American people and our national security, in order to placate Pentagon diversity crusaders and idiots like Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
But, two stories have recently shed light on Ranger School once again.
In June, this year, a source at the Mountain Ranger Camp at Dahlonega had informed USDW that a female Ranger School student was indeed pregnant. Apparently, this student and her boyfriend were in the same Ranger School class. Both students were recycled during the Benning phase. While in the ‘Gulag’ awaiting the beginning of the Benning phase recycle, she got pregnant.
The female was eventually taken out of the course while in the Mountain Phase, and has reportedly been offered a chance to recycle after her maternity leave ends.
Last week, another story from Ranger School broke and it sounded a lot like what was happening at Benning in 2015. Popular Military reported that ‘the first female enlisted soldier to graduate Ranger School allegedly quit during the first phase of training and was given more opportunities to restart phases of the course, according to sources within the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade.’
According to the article, “several sources -including Ranger Instructors (RIs) whose names have been withheld- say that the NCO quit during the first phase of training, but was allowed to come back and even recycle several times, something that has never happened in a course that is supposed to automatically disqualify those who tap out.”
“She was given more recycles and even quit during the first phase,” an RI source said, speaking on conditions of anonymity.
Down the road from the first phase of Ranger school at Fort Benning, at Sand Hill, Infantry recruits claimed that a clear double-standard existed for their female counterparts, including lighter rucks and lower expectations.
“No way,” one soldier told Popular Military last year, after being asked if women were held to the same standards. “Lighter rucks, things like that.”
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
There’s an old saying, where there’s smoke, there’s fire and there’s a lot of smoke down at Benning, and there has been for three years.
You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that since 2015, a conspiracy to pass women at Ranger School has continued under the guise of the senior leadership in the Ranger Training Brigade and in the army.
In order to placate fools in Congress and their superiors, in order to pad their pensions, promotions and future defense contractor jobs, Pentagon perfumed princes have demanded female graduates from Ranger School, national security be damned.
What’s happening at Fort Benning is a disgrace to the brave Rangers who went before in Sicily, at Pointe du Hoc, on Omaha Beach, in Burma, in the Philippines, in Vietnam, Mogadishu, Iraq and Afghanistan.
What’s happening at Fort Benning is a fraud and a conspiracy that goes all the way to the desk of Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
We are going to lose the next war because of this.
When I was going through Ft Knox, we had a kid in my troop who was Jack Kemp’s nephew.
He washed out in the second week with a failure to adapt type discharge.
Hands being tied by congress?
Maddog? That’s a bad joke on all of us who served and love the Army.
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Could it be Your attitude is be because Mattis is a Marine??????
General Mattis was confirmed and sworn in Jan. 20, 2017. That means he has been in office one year and 7 1/2 months. I have news for everyone, Rome was not built in a day even in this Microwave push button world. Patience is a virtue. We do not need a trash bag full of diversions at the moment. We need a concerted effort on all fronts to achieve our paramount objective, to WIN the mid term elections. A fight over women in the Military can do nobody any good at this moment in time. A little tactical awareness would not hurt right now.
Part of the problem is the military’s over reliance on GPS.
Yes, the CST is fine for women, because they’re not extended combat operations.
I like that you granted that females have some skills and didn’t just dismiss them because they’re girls.
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Agreed. My son’s excellence his first day on the firing line at Marine Boot camp led to his instructor saying, “Where did you learn to shoot like that?”
His answer was simple, “My mom.”
There are many singular or multiple expertises women have that are wasted because they do not have the whole package due to physical limitations.
in the second world war, the underground functioned because of women, planes were delivered where they were needed because of women, war machines were built because of women and on and on. Rather than playing all these allotment or PC games, let common sense dictate where and even when, women can be an effective addition. I am sick and tired of the constant attacks on men of every shape and description. There are some things women can’t do. Nobody was ever more physically fit than I was in my prime. Whereas I would have no trouble pulling a drowning 250 pound man to safety in the ocean, I could never throw a wounded man over my shoulder and carry him to safety on land. Common Sense needs to be brought back into perspective. Put an end to all the political correctness once and for all. If a woman wants a position LET HER EARN IT. I did. In a Man’s World.
Not true.
Mattis has changed many things, mostly for the better.
His position is that every soldier should be given the opportunity to achieve their aspirations in the military because Mattis values motivation and and a burning desire to excel as a core conviction.
Mattis also has been clear that physical and mental skills needed to perform a position at maximum combat effectiveness are a non negotiable requirement.
Mattis’s directives are being sabotaged by Obama era political officers in positions of authority.
Mattis seems to have taken the best approach but it will take time to filter down
Soldiers “ARE” going to die because of this! When it happens some officers should be charged with aiding and abetting Murder!
An interesting post. Further confirmation that the US should exit Afghanistan. We won’t do what the British did to Pathans who ambushed or sniped them, burn down the village, blow up the wells, and cut down the fruit trees. The Pathans are excellent at field craft, good shots and total sh*ts who revel in treachery and viciousness. For them to tolerate you you must convince them you are as violent and unrelenting as they are.
The military doesn't accept people with uncorrectable poor eyesight, or people with respiratory deficiencies. This isn't some Invictus, earn your dream poster on the wall situation, this is a taxpayer funded organization designed to kill our enemies in the most violent manner possible. That will always be most efficiently achieved with men. Even in instances of women with remarkable gifts, the degree and amount of training required to get them to a level that men can be trained with much less time and effort makes the inclusion of women in combat arms foolish, just as it would be foolish to include obese people...
The fish rots from the head. Mattis is in charge.
Absolutely.
Mattis being a Marine does have something to do with my attitude. I fully expected him to be no nonsense, to get it right, not wallow in the destructive experiments forced on the military by the haters in Obama’s administration. Yes, him being a Marine does have a lot to do with my attitude.
It absolutely is true. Mattis complained long and loud about women in combat when he was in a position not to influence those decisions. Now that he runs the DoD, he is stone cold silent. He apparently never expected to be in charge and now he can’t find the nerve to follow through.
BTW, why did he try to countermand Trump’s order to get rid of the cross dressers?
I guarantee you that he has the political capitol to get what he wants from Congress. He has not lifted a finger and even tried to countermand Trump’s order to get rid of cross dressers. An utter and complete failure.
I think Mattis has been quite busy taking out ISIS. ISIS was a foremost threat to the USA and all western states. Trump had the wisdom to put Mattis in charge. ISIS is now a whiff of air as they have been destroyed. All that remains is a fragment here and there and they were defeated in ONE YEAR. Give credit where credit is due.
Let me remind you of the words of Abraham Lincoln: “From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
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