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.
“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.”
You do realize women will do more than that if they found out Manolo Blahnik’s had a 50% shoe sale.
Of course they removed that.
The question is whether they were watered down for everyone so the gals could pass. For instance, a buddy of mine went through Marine OCS around the time of GW-I, and they could be ordered to do 100 push-ups at a clip at a moment's notice if their examiners had a whim to watch them do it. That kind of thing happened all the time. I would have thought the Ranger tab would be at least as "costly."
Hmmm.... I thought the test was tougher than that. Honestly.
Congrats to the two ladies that surpassed the standards and earned the tab.
None of those standards seem too high in an of themselves. Most high school athletes could accomplish all of them. The thing about Ranger training is the grueling repetitive nature of it. Men physically break down from it. Men that have been through it speak of the ‘mental toughness’ that is required to finish the training.
Well, when you put it like that, it seems easy. Ha ha.