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No women able to finish first try at Ranger School
www.foxnews.com ^ | 5/8/15 | fox newa

Posted on 05/09/2015 1:52:16 PM PDT by armydawg505

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To: armydawg505

Anyone want to take bets on when there’ll be a rule passed requiring a certain number of female Rangers (or other Special Forces members)?


21 posted on 05/09/2015 2:25:29 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: armydawg505

Mountain phase will do them in. It caused me to cycle out twice. Never got my tab. Lots of good, strong men never get their tab. Mountain phase is a Hillary.


22 posted on 05/09/2015 2:26:30 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: armydawg505

“And how long before the standards ?”

Maybe they could get a “Junior Ranger” badge and a decoder ring.


23 posted on 05/09/2015 2:40:07 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: dp0622

Girl tries out for my team last season. She is 14 and tougher than most of the boys on the team. She is one of my better players and gets through tryouts and in the final scrimmage before picking the team I take the parents aside. I tell them to get her on a girls team. The parents yell at me.

Before the first practice I call a buddy of mine in Wisconsin and secure a spot for her on a girls national travel team. Hour before practice I see the girl and her parents and they are excited she is playing for me. Once again I pull the parents aside, tell them they have a special kid and I got her a spot on a team in Wisconsin. School is worked out, family she will live with, everything including tuition. Parents accuse me of hurting their kids chances at a higher level.

A this point am wondering who is advising them because an exceptional hockey player who is a girl needs to play with girls not boys. First drill I do after warmups is a two on two battle in front of the net. Kid checks the girl, girl falls, girl breaks two bones inner hand, girl done for season.

Get off the ice after practice, mother is screaming. Father thanks me. Following season she played in Wisconsin on the girls team.

Bless their hearts, but girls have no business competing with boys. Not on the playing field, not on the battlefield. Call me sexist, but that’s the way it is.


24 posted on 05/09/2015 2:43:01 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (two if by van, one if by broom)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

You’re not sexist. You’re a realist. Mid teen to early 20 year old male athletes (hockey, football, boxing, and wrestling especially) are brutally and ruthlessly strong. Anything else is nonsense
They should have listened to you.
I fear the increase in attacks on young women after dark are in some cases due to their false assumption that some karate or cardio boxing class has prepared them to fight off a male if necessary and so they walk to cars alone from clubs, invite that jerk over for a nightcap, etc.
Stalkers will always exist, women must use brains to combat these animals.


25 posted on 05/09/2015 2:50:57 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I used to play a lot of pickup hockey, sometimes three nights a week.

There was one group that had two female players, and being a goalie, i was curious about their skill set, so I watched them warming up. They looked fast and shifty, and had somewhat decent wrist shots, though not as strong in a snapshot.

Once the game began, they couldn’t do a thing. It was a no contact (hitting) league, but they simply weren’t strong enough to push a guy or get him out of their way.


26 posted on 05/09/2015 3:05:56 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: dp0622
"for her I just punched a piece of wall off in the elevator lobby and that was enough"

they're the idiots?....really......

27 posted on 05/09/2015 3:07:19 PM PDT by cherry
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To: armydawg505

Sadly the next step will be to lower the standards so females can pass the course.

Its one thing to talk about female Rangers or Navy Seals if they have to pass the exact same rigorous course as the men. But its a very different situation if we are going to lower standards just to say that females are Rangers or Seals.


28 posted on 05/09/2015 3:07:29 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: armydawg505

When I played intramural basketball, one night we let the wives and girlfriends of the players play on the teams. These were young women who were stars on their college basketball teams, making all-conference and such. It was no contest. The girls simply couldn’t compete. They couldn’t run, they couldn’t jump, they couldn’t rebound with the guys. They were short. They were slow. They had no power. Yet, competing among girls, they would have been very good.


29 posted on 05/09/2015 3:14:43 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (6'3", 215 lbs., in my athletic prime)
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To: armydawg505

“Two years ago, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the nation’s top military officer, laid down an edict on the Obama administration’s plan to open direct land combat jobs to women: If women cannot meet a standard, senior commanders better have a good reason why it should not be lowered.

Today, the “Dempsey rule” appears to have its first test case.

The Marine Corps just finished research to see if female officers could successfully complete its rigorous Infantry Officer Course.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/19/marine-corps-weighs-lower-standards-for-women-afte/


30 posted on 05/09/2015 3:17:54 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: armydawg505

OK. Put yourself in the Democrats shoes.

Why do you want to have women go to Ranger School?

What is your next move if you can’t get any women through the course?

What do Democrats think the purpose of Ranger School is?

What does the Army say the purpose of Ranger School is?

They are playing three moves ahead. Are we?


31 posted on 05/09/2015 3:23:07 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Impy
How about trannies?

Not yet. Wait.

32 posted on 05/09/2015 3:26:37 PM PDT by Salman
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To: armydawg505

If they drop the Ranger/SEALS, etc standards, one can hope the correspondingly drop the SS standards. Only fair.


33 posted on 05/09/2015 3:36:47 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: DCBryan1

I knew a kid who broke his ankle in Ranger training back in the early `90s. It was just a freak accident. He was tough and strong and smart. And I’ve never seen someone so disappointed.
How would you like to be him in 2015, knowing you didn’t make it while some young woman is passed along because she didn’t have the same obstacles?
It’s a recipe for hard feelings, bad morale and disrespect. But that doesn’t mean anything to Obama and his career brass toads.


34 posted on 05/09/2015 3:37:58 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: max americana

Men and women are DIFFERENT?! Well knock me over with a feather.


35 posted on 05/09/2015 3:38:32 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: ansel12

The solution is quite clear. Eliminate the rope climb and substitute with an event that everyone gets into a circle and discuss how they feelings are going to be damaged if they don’t get allow to be in the Infantry. Everyone will gives hugs and it will all be OK.

Alternatively, if it has to be a physical task. The boys will be required to climb the rope. The girls will slide down. See, that was easy. Group hugs.


36 posted on 05/09/2015 3:38:57 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: armydawg505

How long before we hear that women were deliberately picked on and harassed so as to make it harder for them.

I know a lot of changes had to be made to training, specifically the instructors conduct, they had to change the language and many other things to accommodate, no doubt the entire graduating class was weakened as a result.


37 posted on 05/09/2015 3:39:55 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: max americana

Heck, some guys don’t even make it. It’s tough. It has to be.


38 posted on 05/09/2015 3:40:17 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: blueunicorn6

The Democrats, and the feminists, could care less about Ranger School or anyone who attends, including women. They are just interested in demonstrating that they are in charge. Just another poke with a stick into the eye of our society. They are just laughing their asses off.


39 posted on 05/09/2015 3:42:40 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: dp0622

I suspect most of them were flirting or looking for a legitimate reason for uhm...close intimate contact. No woman in her right mind would take on anybody matching your description. (Damned few men, for that matter.)


40 posted on 05/09/2015 3:42:45 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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