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The graduation at the end of the month definitely will not be typical. Because of this historic milestone, graduation will be held in a closed hangar to conceal her identity. A Special Forces Engineer Sergeant (18C) with the 3rd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group, the female soldier has big hopes of going active duty. However, her warm welcome may not be as welcome as she may like.

Just over five feet tall, her walking into a Special Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) team room will not be high fives and handshakes.

1 posted on 06/27/2020 5:25:56 PM PDT by kevcol
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To: kevcol

Unless she can carry a wounded operator in full battle rattle to safety, she has NO BUSINESS BEING ON A TEAM!!


2 posted on 06/27/2020 5:27:58 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: kevcol

HISTORIC!!!!


5 posted on 06/27/2020 5:33:03 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: kevcol

I guess they really are going to replace Spec Ops with Social Workers like the Babylon Bee predicted ... did you fact check that Babylon Bee story Snopes?


6 posted on 06/27/2020 5:34:18 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
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To: kevcol

Buried somewhere is that they lowered standards for this to happen. She can’t possibly carry a co Green Beret off the field at all.


8 posted on 06/27/2020 5:36:41 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
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To: kevcol

Oprahfying the military may make us feel good, but it endangers lives.


9 posted on 06/27/2020 5:37:09 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: kevcol

Unit cohesion destroyed.

Chicks f*** up everything.


10 posted on 06/27/2020 5:38:27 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: kevcol

A sad day for our country. We have lost our minds.


11 posted on 06/27/2020 5:39:39 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: kevcol

Sounds as useful as a 5’ tall 100# firefighter.


15 posted on 06/27/2020 5:43:41 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: kevcol

How much watering down did they do for her ???


17 posted on 06/27/2020 5:44:50 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Jet Jaguar

Ping


19 posted on 06/27/2020 5:47:13 PM PDT by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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To: kevcol

National Guard ( or even reserve )? Somebody correct me if I’m wrong but I always thought that any special forces candidate had to have at least a few years of exemplary active duty service before they could even try out for any of these duties. then after all training is complete can the go Guard or Reserve.


20 posted on 06/27/2020 5:50:55 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Free the TVs!)
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To: kevcol

How many transgender ‘women’ placed better than her?


22 posted on 06/27/2020 5:59:56 PM PDT by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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Something doesn’t add up.

When in high school I could run faster than any woman in the world. Yes, any woman in the world.

I would not have even tried to be a Ranger, Seal or Green Beret. The reason is I knew I could not have passed.


25 posted on 06/27/2020 6:04:59 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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I don't know if she is in this photograph, but the photo speaks for itself. It is in this article: "First Female Soldier In Decades Selected For Green Beret Training," by Jeff Schogol, November 14, 2018.


28 posted on 06/27/2020 6:12:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: kevcol

Unless we quickly repeal the 19th amendment our republic is doomed.


29 posted on 06/27/2020 6:12:14 PM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: kevcol

Some one has to make the samichs for the mens


42 posted on 06/27/2020 6:37:03 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: kevcol

There is no way in he!! a 5 ft tall woman can do the physical requirements to get her Green Beret. Just another example of the Army giving away what used to mean something just like they did the Ranger tabs to the first women passed along in that course. Let this retired Army Officer be not the first to call BS.


44 posted on 06/27/2020 6:44:10 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: kevcol

I can see a female being a HIGH-LEVEL medic or perhaps a commo specialist on a B team but NOT as an operator on a Special Forces A team.

40+ years ago when we MPs accepted our first few females into the Corps, they were required to meet the SAME standards as male trainees: At least 70”tall, weigh at least 150# and able to run 2 miles in BDU & boots in 15 minutes, while wearing “field” MP gear & an M16. To enter OSUT, ALL trainees had to also pass the minimum requirements of the MALE PT test.
(The vast majority of accepted female Apprentice MPs, who entered the skill Level 1 school, were HIGHLY MOTIVATED young women mostly off farms/ranches & often were the daughters of civilian police officers.)

As long as that was the standard, the FEW women in the MPs worked out well. - The problem was when the DoD dropped the height/weight/fitness standards & FORCED the MP Corps to allow smaller/weaker males & females to enter MP OSUT.

A personal note: The first female MP to enter our company was intelligent, tough, talented & motivated. Four years later at ETS from active duty, CPL Janice E. R_______ returned home to CO, joined the ARNG & later became a Colorado State trooper.
(I’ve heard but do not know, that she is now retired from the CSP.)

Just my experience, TMN78247
USAMPR, Retired


51 posted on 06/27/2020 8:54:33 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, F'by 241836)
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What a joke....


55 posted on 06/28/2020 1:50:45 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
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To: kevcol

Probably her test scores are secret sand probably she had to retake a number of then and the tests were much easier because of her gender.


59 posted on 06/28/2020 5:06:07 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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