Posted on 05/16/2012 9:12:40 PM PDT by Publius804
WASHINGTON — Army leaders have begun to study the prospect of sending female soldiers to the service's prestigious Ranger school — another step in the effort to broaden opportunities for women in the military.
Gen. Raymond Odierno, Army chief of staff, said Wednesday that he's asked senior commanders to provide him with recommendations and a plan this summer. And while he stressed that no decisions have been made, he suggested that Ranger school may be a logical next step for women as they move into more jobs closer to the combat lines.
"If we determine that we're going to allow women to go in the infantry and be successful, they are probably at some time going to have to go through Ranger school," Odierno told reporters. "If we decide to do this, we want the women to be successful."
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.
Going to Ranger school, however, does not automatically mean women would be allowed to serve in one of the Army's three elite Ranger battalions, which are Army special operations forces. In fact, many male soldiers who wear the coveted Ranger tab on their uniforms never actually serve in one of the three battalions.
Currently, women are not allowed to serve in special operations, infantry or armor forces, which are considered the most dangerous combat jobs. They are, however, allowed to serve in a number of support jobs such as medics, military police and intelligence officers that are sometimes attached to combat brigades.
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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?
Don’t worry they will fudge it. /sarc
..with a washout rate of maybe 60% now..this don’t make any sense
unless Odumbo wants to lower standards.....that he is quite accustomed to......
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.
Maybe they could substitute multiple choice tests for a few of the ruck marches.
BOHICA
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.
You forgot hand-to-hand combat. They'd have to fight men.
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.
That’s negatory
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.
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.
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.
Whoever said Leftists or women are sane?
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