[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.

[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.

[SJSAMPLE]

Just because a woman can run, swim and cycle under her own weight in no way means she’s a candidate for Ranger School. The biggest physical requirement is the ability to hump a monstrous ruck. Mine weighted over 70lbs and I only weighed 130lbs at the time.

And, OF COURSE they’ll fudge the standards and tests. That’s what the Army always does with women in combat roles or inter-sex training.

[Tallguy]

The obvious solution is to de-emphasize Ranger training as a criteria for promotion to field grade. If 90 percent of the officers above a certain rank have undergone Ranger training, then this is an indication to me that the Ranger ‘school’ is too large and training too many officers who will never serve with or command Rangers.