[wbill]

hmmm. If it was BS, then why write an op-ed about it? I'd just keep my mouth shut. Unless the author was ordered to write it, which wouldn't surprise me in this day and age.

Or, the op-ed was a total fabrication. Which wouldn't surprise me with this administration, either.

Or, as rlmorel suggested, it was a career-advancing (or non-career limiting) option.

Who knows. But, as I said, it wouldn't surprise me for the military to find someone - say, some top-notch female athlete wanting to make a name for herself - that could sneak into the bottom 10% of the class. Especially with the military being used for a social experiment - there's got to be plenty of pressure to find women who are "Just as Good as Men". Doesn't matter if you're 1st or last, you still get Ranger Tabs for passing.

But finding the exception to the general rule, doesn't make it a standard, or even a passable idea. Which is what the mass media is touting this situation as.

[rlmorel]

I don't think it was a total fabrication. I don't think it was faked. I think they tried, and tried, and tried, and tried, and got two females to pass. Just to say it could be done and to open the door. And there are a lot of "Courtney Massengale" types in today's military.

They see which way the wind is blowing. And they aren't going to be one of the dinosaurs that are heard saying "This is a bad idea".

Because they are made examples of.

There are women who could pass, but they have to train like Navy Seals as women to match the bottom ten percent of the male candidates.