Army Reviews Whether to Allow Women in Ranger School

Newsmax ^ | 16 May 2012 | N/A

[lurk]

First, they should match the men in every score, number, measure, exercise, distance, weight and time. There should be no fudging the standards down for women.

Second, why would a woman want to do this?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Pure insanity. Is the military a social program or the protector of our nation?

[Red Steel]

Don’t worry they will fudge it. /sarc

[Doogle]

..with a washout rate of maybe 60% now..this don’t make any sense

[pawdoggie]

According to Odierno, about 90 percent of senior Army infantry officers have gone to the school and are qualified as Rangers. Allowing women to go to Ranger school, he said, would allow them to be competitive with their male counterparts as they move through the ranks. Sounds like Ray knows which side his bread's buttered on. There may be a few triathlete type women who could make it through Ranger School (assuming allowances were made for field hygiene and sanitation issues, and they doubtless will be), but "allowing women (or one-armed trans-gendered Croats, for that matter) to be competitive with their male counterparts" is not why we have a Ranger School, or a military for that matter.

[Doogle]

unless Odumbo wants to lower standards.....that he is quite accustomed to......

[One Name]

Your premise is the correct one. Israel incorporated women into combat-ready units only because they had to as a matter of preparedness and national survival.

We’re not there yet.

[pawdoggie]

According to Odierno, about 90 percent of senior Army infantry officers have gone to the school and are qualified as Rangers. Allowing women to go to Ranger school, he said, would allow them to be competitive with their male counterparts as they move through the ranks. Sounds like Ray knows which side his bread's buttered on. There may be a few triathlete type women who could make it through Ranger School (assuming allowances were made for field hygiene and sanitation issues, and they doubtless will be), but "allowing women (or one-armed trans-gendered Croats, for that matter) to be competitive with their male counterparts" is not why we have a Ranger School, or a military for that matter.

[jospehm20]

Maybe they could substitute multiple choice tests for a few of the ruck marches.

[BFM]

BOHICA

[hillarys cankles]

This is just the continual softening of the US Military.
They will tell us that they won’t lower the standards of the Rangers but lowering the standards will be the end result. Otherwise the cries of unfairness will start to reverberate throughout the halls of congress. I suffered through women being forced on the Navy fleet and saw the results of PC firsthand. We are friggin doomed.

[Red Steel]

There may be a few triathlete type women who could make it through Ranger School

You forgot hand-to-hand combat. They'd have to fight men.

[2ndDivisionVet]

We’re a huge nation of 320 million souls. I can’t imagine a situation where we’d need to use females in those roles. I’d rather see a foreign legion before that.

[Nifster]

That’s negatory

[coincheck]

This will only work if they completely wussify Ranger School. They will have to lower the standards so much just for the women to pass the physical requirments it would be a joke. Can’t wait to see how they handle the 200’ night rappel. Ranger stakes would be interesting.

[coincheck]

This will only work if they completely wussify Ranger School. They will have to lower the standards so much just for the women to pass the physical requirments it would be a joke. Can’t wait to see how they handle the 200’ night rappel. Ranger stakes would be interesting.

[Dogbert41]

"You have a problem with that?"

[Retain Mike]

Now that the sodomites and lesbians are officially ordained, the Pentagon will never pass up an opportunity to direct the services towards humanist social alchemy and social engineering.

The Ranger sub-culture that ensures victory demands totalitarian mental and physical harshness to overcome their chaotic, barbaric, and brittle environments. The question is not whether women can meet some newly fabricated minimum set of qualifications, but whether they can join the few exceeding the expectations of accomplished combat infantrymen.

My son is a former Marine and my war was with the Brown Water Navy in Vietnam. There will be a terrible price paid. We both discourage anyone who asks about joining the military. Victory and the warrior ethic are no longer important values.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Whoever said Leftists or women are sane?