Ranger School spits out 20 year old men with the speed of a hotel power flush. Sending a 30 something man to the school is considered to be haphazard decision at best. How a 37 year old woman made it is beyond anyone’s reasoning.
Let me go on record as saying, I do NOT want this woman anywhere near me or any of the men under my command when the chit hits the fan!!
Holy de-hydrated pork patty, Batman! (pass me a track pad)
Earning a Ranger tab means something. If the table is being tilted, then we have a milk problem.
The milk problem is this. If you’re presented two glasses of milk, one clean and one that may or may not have a mouse turd in it, which one would you drink from? Obviously the one without the chance of a turd. Even though someone tells you “most of the milk is good, even if there’s a turd in it”.
There are several tabbed females and the Army won’t say whether they earned it or not.
IF the Army is graduating females from Ranger school by altering the standards, THEN that’s the glass that may or may not...
Let’s hope our leaders have the courage to not do this. I’m afraid we passed that point, so let’s hope that they drink from the clean glass.
Rangers lead the way!
Even if you believe they found a unicorn that could manage this at 37, it still doesn’t erase the fundamental issues of women being significantly weaker than men on average. When you’re selecting for elites, this matters. It is a waste of everyone’s time and effort to be forcing through a population that you know from the outset has on average 2/3rds or less of the upper body strength. And this may be less important than the psychological/social issues surrounding having women in front line combat units.
Smokescreen on the Potomac: Pentagon and Congress deliberately ignoring $36 million USMC study
US Defense Watch ^ | April 19, 2016 | Ray Starmann
Posted on April 20, 2016 2:35:27 AM EDT by pboyington
The United States of America is in mortal jeopardy and most Americans, tucked away in their beds tonight don’t even understand why or who is responsible for their peril.
Those responsible are not from North Korea, China, Iran, Russia or ISIS. They are Department of Defense bureaucrats, members of Congress and senior leaders in the US military.
The US military is committing suicide. We are in the first stages of beginning a process that is going to decimate the speed, lethality and combat power of the Marines and the US Army combat arms and special operations. The US military is doing this because of policies directed by the White House and authorized by willing lackeys in the Pentagon and in Congress.
A Congress short on military veterans and long on wind and incompetence said nothing as the April 1, 2016, deadline passed for them to review Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s authorization which allows women to serve in direct ground combat units.
Yet, Congress had a plethora of information presented to them which clearly indicated that women cannot function and survive in US Army and US Marine Corps combat arms and special operations units; aka, infantry, armor, armored cavalry, artillery, the Marine Raiders, NAVY SEALs, Delta Force, the Rangers and the Green Berets............
.......Included in the vast array of information available to the Pentagon and the Congress was the $36 million dollar, 9 month long Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force (GCEITF) Study the Marines conducted in 2014 that pitted all male units against coed units in a myriad of combat tasks that simulated what one faces in the combat arms and special ops.
The study was monitored by neutral researchers from the University of Pittsburgh.
Except for Senator John MCCAIN and Congressman DUNCAN HUNTER, who felt the Pentagon was deliberately dodging the results of the study, not one member of Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Army, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the former US Army Chief of Staff and the current US Army Chief of Staff, completely and unequivocally wanted nothing to do with the study and ensured that it was ignored.
In fairness to General Joe Dunford, the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as Commandant of of the Marine Corps, he did request a waiver that would have stopped women from being included in the combat arms and special operations units of the Marines.
Dunford’s waiver wasn’t even considered by Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus. Since then, Dunford has hunkered down in his bunker, watching the implosion of the Marine Corps with field glasses................