Posted on 11/18/2014 10:41:24 AM PST by jazusamo
The U.S. ArmyRanger school has 31 female candidates for its planned Ranger Course Assessment next spring.
The Maneuver Center of Excellence in Fort Benning, Georgia, said on its Facebook page Monday that Fort Benning’s Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade has chosen 11 officers and 20 noncommissioned officers as observers and advisers for the course.
Candidates went through a week of training to give them an idea of the rigors that Ranger School inflicts upon soldiers.
“I was very satisfied with both the quality and quantity of the volunteers we received,” said Maj. Gen. Scott Miller, commanding general of the Maneuver Center of Excellence.
“Their performance and professionalism over the course of the week was extraordinary. This group did very well for what was a very physically challenging week for any soldier,” he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
So have they said exactly how they are going to retool the course requirements so as not to be sexist?
OK, now I don't see the point.
Sure, they are going to have a separate course for men and women that is easier for women. Separate requirements on fitness and strength. When taught hand to hand combat, women won't have to fight men.
Now, we only need to get our enemies to tone it down when they are facing women.
Men will die as a result of this.
They WILL find a way to make women Rangers.
I was recycled twice for Ranger school. Never got the tab. Mountain phase is going to weed them out REAL quick.
Rolled ankle/broke ankle. Both during MTN phase. FWIW.
Still have my Airborne, Air Assault, and Pathfinder Badges.
retool the course requirements so as not to be sexist?
Retooling the course just because women will be attending is sexist.
I predict that if they are lucky only 2 will pass. If that many.
I don’t have a problem in finding women a place in the function something akin to “Ranger”. If they can pass the physical and mental testing along with other required skills, more power to them.
It is when they start relaxing the historical requirements for “Ranger” to fit “women” is when I have a problem. You can do it, or you can die.
Please tell me that this is satire . . .
They won’t relax mens’ standards....they will make exceptions for women and call it ‘equal’.
Is Demi Moore one of the candidates?
Agreed, and find it hard to believe requirements will not be relaxed.
Both men and women will die as a result of this.
Unless your country is directly under attack, it makes no sense to have women in combat.
That also caught my eye. Could anyone who’s been through it tell us what’s the difference between observers and advisers or those who are normally just going through the course? Or is there any?
That’s not all. The female “graduates” will become staff “advisors” in the Ranger Training Brigade for future classes.
They put me on bed rest, allowed me to eat in the chow hall, and gave me pills the size of my pinky. I woke up after 18 hours of sleep and had a temp of 97.8. Those pills are amazing.
We had more than a few guys fall on the mountains and go to sick call. They were gone the next day.
This is all fixed up front. Those “advisors” are pre- selected to be the enablers to make all of this happen. They may as well just tab these girls right now and save a bunch of money. Excuse me while I puke.
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