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.
Don't get saucy with me, Bernaise!
Mattis at this point has had years to change this. He has done nothing. In fact, on his watch landnav and hand grenades have been removed from Army Basic and the pass/fail portion of the Marine Infantry Officer course has been removed. In the latter case, that the Combat Endurance Test was “unnecessarily” difficult for women has been cited in numerous sources as a significant influence on the decision to do away with it.
>>(One of the greatest segments of one of the greatest movies of all time).<<
I’m not much of a movie fan, but what is the title of the movie you’re referring to?
If Mattis isn’t working on this they’ll have to change his name to Mad Cow.
Soldier 1 "Do you care if it falls?"
Soldier 2 "What?"
Soldier 1 "The Roman Empire."
Soldier 2 "F*** it"
THANK you!!
Pet peeve of mine since forever...
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Very interesting that my comments under the article did not show up and these comments to me don’t show up when I log onto FreeRepublic. Mattis and Trump have done NOTHING to clean out this cesspool and throwing money at DoD while it is rotten to its core will do nothing to improve our military. Mattis is nothing but a caretaker, changes nothing and accomplishes nothing. He is no more a Mad Dog than some child’s stuffed animal.
Mattis has had nearly two years to fix this and has not lifted a finger. He is as worthless as McNamara, Rumsfeld and Carter combined. Maddog? That’s a bad joke on all of us who served and love the Army.
Ask yourself why Mattis has had nearly two years to clean this up and it still goes on without the slightest change.
Remember that Mattis is an Obama General, their motto was and still is, Career before Country.
There are so many good lines, but far and away the best and most memorable was:
But, if as you say, a woman helicopter pilot takes a portion of Ranger school that applies to her MOS, that's the perfect blend of acknowledging the shortcomings and augmenting the woman's talents.
Maybe there should be a special division and rank or whatever you call that. Some people could be Ranger Specialists, meaning they passed a section of Ranger school that's directly applicable to their MOS. Their ranger tab could be a different color for those that put a lot of emphasis on what salad a soldier is wearing.
I like that you granted that females have some skills and didn't just dismiss them because they're girls.
The fact that he spoke out against women serving in combat roles when he had little to no ability to do anything about it makes it all the more frustrating that he chooses to do nothing now. Mad Dog my butt, he’s like a little dog that barks through a locked gate but cowers when he finds the gate is open.
Don’t get me started on the use if “i” in complex number notation...
There are three lines from the movie that I continually use in normal conversation:
And ...
The jig is up ... and gone!
Exactly right. Ask any serious soldier, or any civilian whose life depends on good navigation, and you will find this in common: MAP STUDY before the mission/event is everything.
I agree. I don’t see the man who earned the name Mad Dog as being some kind of pussy.
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