Of course, once they start to adjust the standards, the numbers will change.
>>Of course, once they start to adjust the standards, the numbers will change. <<
To the level a male child of 12 can qualify.
The thousands of deaths at the hands of girls who can’t hump her 200 lb fellow soldier out of harm’s war will be at obozo’s and libtards’ doors.
I am sill waiting for feminazis to demand that medical science allow men to give birth.
Equality, right?
Hi centurian316,
My Ranger nephew lost some 40-45 pounds while going through the second and third phases of Ranger school. He didn’t have it to lose. The physical activity and limited sleep and calories really strips the weight off. He asked me to pin his tab on at his graduation as he said becoming a Ranger was about endurance. If a candidate didn’t endure to the required level, they could go again. My memory is the first phase was the least physically demanding. The mountains and the swamps were tough for any human.
I admire anyone making the effort to attain that status. I hope the female candidates that attempt again will not have lower standards. I don’t think they will.
Gwjack
No comment.
Despite what the Pentagon says, on a lot of military message boards that usually have pretty good info, the word is that all of these women failed badly. By the standards by which Ranger School has operated in the past these women would have been returned to their units, not allowed to recycle.
come on now, everyone gets a trophy.
Indeed, the prohibition should not be absolute, but, as you say. it cannot be but rare. Like expecting a woman to play major league baseball. Softball, they can almost cut it, but not hardball.
They just graduated a female even though she flunked the physical agility test, but excelled in their academics.
How last century is that! /Sarcasim
It used to be called RIP, now it’s RAP?
Maybe next it’ll be HIP and HOP?
I highly doubt any woman is going to pass the full Ranger qualifications.
even an Olympic athlete level woman is not a comparison to a man that can pass the qualifications. Nowhere near upper body strength, nowhere near the lung capacity. Nowhere near the mental toughness for these particular reasons (they could be as or more mentally tough for different reasons, just not these reasons).
People miss the point on this.
The Elite military training programs are intentionally designed to weed out all but the toughest and most capable men because that’s what it takes to do the job in actual.
By dropping standards, you are doing the exact opposite.
In some of the foreign Special Forces they have a truck called something “The quitter cart” filled with Special Forces trainers following the trainees who are in the process of being put through hell and pushed to the limits of human endurance and deprivation in the most extreme environmental conditions imaginable.
The trainers drive up and down the line sitting in comfortable chairs set up in the back of the truck with feet up, shoes off and drinking beer and eating great food and smoking cigarettes while begging the trainees to to quit and join them on the truck so they can weed the mentally weak, the quitters and less than fully motivated and committed out of the program.
Of course they also use the same to truck to transport trains who collapse from exhaustion or who are injured during the hard training to the base hospital. This a very coming occurrence in training.
These qualification standards are insane and have almost nothing to do with battlefield conditions, even behind the lines ops. They are mainly bonding initiation rituals and torture endurance if captured training. Elite forces are no harder to kill when spotted than any other fighting force. I want to see figures on Seals, Rangers, Delta Force and Green Beret actions that show them to be worth the expense in training. If you want mountain troops, train them in mountains. If you want desert troops, snow troops, UDT troops, air insertion troops, etc., train them for the job. You try to train one person in all the above, you get a very expensive asset just as capable of being lit up by an IR drone as any other normally trained asset.
After their active duty service is up and they civilianize, guess who drops by with a pay check- all the private security details for the fat cats and bankers who start these conflicts. We are basically training bodyguards and mercenaries for the globalist monopolist aristocracy, the people we fought a revolution and founded this country against.