So the Army has finally lowered its standards sufficiently so the gals can get be (almost) special forces?
Obama’s policy.
It looks like the standards were the same for everyone. From the article ...
To earn the Ranger tab, applicants must be able to complete 49 push-ups, 59 sit-ups, a five-mile run in 40 minutes, six chin-ups, a swimming test, a land navigation test, a 12-mile foot march in three hours, several obstacle courses, four days of military mountaineering, three parachute jumps, four air assaults on helicopters, multiple rubber boat movements and 27 days of mock combat patrols.
Reminds me of a joke from about 2002:
“What makes the Iraqi Republican Guard ‘elite’?”
They’re fed three times a day.
Nothing personal, ladies, but I weigh 210 pounds.
If you can’t drag an unconscious me a few feet, our
relationship seems to me to be a little one-sided.
I’m as open-minded as the next guy, but let’s face it:
This is just Obama’s homo/trannie/diversity policies hurting the military and America.
"A final example of where the U.S. military is going right now. Many have heard about the women in ranger school experiment. The Army scoured the military for a couple of years and found 19 women that might have a chance. They were allowed unlimited train up time, had special observers to insure fairness etc. and so far 3 have actually passed 1 phase, after 3 recycles. Great so for 2 years the Army has devoted time, money and resources to this project for maybe 3 women to make it (they are only in the mountain phase so far, about 1/2 way through). While I don't care who goes or passes Ranger School (it is a tab/school not a scroll); however I do care about the effort and amount of resources on this project when we are cutting 10's of thousands of combat Soldiers from the Army and units are scrapping the bottom of the barrel for money to train to fight and win wars. The military has turned into a social lab for the PC police; sorry but the end goal of the military is to fight and win wars and sadly that is no the focus of the military currently."
You can take that to the bank.
I’d guess that’s probably it. - Several years ago, I heard from an ex-military man that they could not “bug out” when they got the order because the women didn’t have the upper body strength to prepare to bug out. So, they didn’t.
I am sure that these two are qualified and passed. what concerns me is future applicants. right now the process is being watched very closely but what happens in the future when the process is not being watched and someone in congress starts putting pressure for more women special forces.
What is this farce or ranger school today?
One guy who just passed it said a really bizarre comment.
He had a lot of weight and could not carry his weight and so she offered and carried his weight.
ER why is anyone carrying anyones weight? The military I know used to make all of us carry or own weight and not push it on to others.