God help us
Posted on 02/05/2015 2:55:07 PM PST by Chode
Thank you and thanks to your son for serving as a US Army Ranger. It is no easy task but he will agree with me that the pride and comradeship that comes with it is life changing.
God help us
yeah, female prisoners get rapped first...
Ranger School has always been a leadership course and focused on officers. I have no issue with this as officers need to demonstrate their ability to lead in stressful circumstances. But any nonsense that officers are the key to combat effectiveness need to be set aside. Officers need to lead the way, they need to translate the commanders intent into specific tasks and they need to set the example. And, they need to die well.
Ranger School has nothing to do with physical fitness or the ability to lead soldiers in combat operations. Ranger School has everything to do with discovering your own physical and mental limits and discovering how to exceed your own physical and mental limitations. None of us can do it all. But, we all can do more than we think that we can do, and learning what those limits might be are invaluable.
The feminists lobby has no clue what we are discussing. They want everything to be measured by the starting point differences between male and female physiography and ignore the differences between mental attitude and toughness. In every case, the feminists approach will produce a pack of losers.
Active Duty ping.
Must have been a “mild” winter in the “Florida jungle”.
i fear the tipping point has been reached and there's simply no way to reverse the damage the boy has done
I tend to agree.
isn't that cute...
Also, Peer Evaluations have always been a key grading ingredient in Ranger training. The weak sisters simply did not last, even if they were physically fit, but mentally or emotionally unreliable with their peers. You could pass the physical events and even pass patrols in a leadership role graded by cadre but still fail based on poor peer eval scores. If you didn't pull your own weight with your fellow Ranger students on a regular basis you were gone, so what you describe is spot on.
I have no issues with women attempting Ranger school. Its an elite school but that wont put women on the front lines if they happen to pass(without lowering standards). They would simply be tab rangers who passed the rangers developement school. They wont be spec op scroll rangers, thats a different beast involves another ranger school and is barred to women. That being said we know the unshaven feminist want GI Jane to happen.
The Big Texan in Amarillo serves it, or did 25 years ago when I was there. It tasted like something battered and fried.
That said, I have seen some damn fine female runners and sit-uppers. I’ve never run across a good female push-upper and even fewer pull-uppers. They don’t exist.
As general rules: Women have great stamina; They don’t have great strength. That’s simple human physiology 101.
All other things equal besides the PT test, on any given cycle there should be zero females make it through Ranger school. Every few cycles, you might see a success.
Now, the standards are about to be diminished to allow females to pass through it to prove a leftist, feminist point, and if you think that females will never darken the door of the Ranger Regiment or any other special operations unit traditionally closed to women for good reason, think again. The rabid left thinks and acts in incremental terms.
I realize that but you can be in the 75th after airborne and RASP and not go through Ranger School for awhile, as you know it depends on slots although being in the 75th will give you priority. If you also have a specialty you may have to push Ranger School back further in order to qualify in your specialty. That all being said its barred to women, so its not like a woman who passes the school will see the fight.
There are already plans in the works to allow females into combat arms MOSs, including infantry assignments, and ALL of this military social lab experimentation leads to reduced combat effectiveness and worse. So, brushing this off as some kind of lark that won't affect combat arms and special operations units is myopic. One step of "validation" leads to the other.
Does it matter if they wear a Ranger Scroll or an 82d Patch? All it indicates to me is that a worthy enlisted guy never got to go...and trust me, this includes the enlisted guy in the 75th.
Ranger tabs were given out like bubblegum to the West Point Military Academy ring knocker cadets when they passed through a few years before you made the scene!
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