I graduated class 8-85 when I was 19yrs old. I wasn’t a hard ass, just a young private out of 2nd Ranger Bn. at the time trying to learn my trade and continue my career in the Ranger Regt. No way, no day did the 2 young women meet the same standards. Just my opinion.
You know it, and every other Ranger knows it. The course standards and ultimately readiness have been compromised for the feminist agenda.
I got a hard lesson on females in the army many moons ago. Here is my story: I am an ROTC cadet attending the US Army Airborne school during the summer of 1985 (Class 11-85). It’s the 2nd week of training (Tower week) and I am in the same ‘stick’ with a female Adjutant General Corps 2LT, who was already wearing “Air Assault” wings, denoting graduation from that course.
Part of the week’s training consisted of jumping out of a 34ft. tower mock-up of a C-130 in harness, and sliding down a cable. In other circumstances it would have been fun to do! When it was her time to “jump” she refused, not once but several times, screaming in terror as the Black-hat, who by this time was livid, shoved her out the door.
I ran into her that evening after duty hours at the little hamburger stand outside the unit area, and I asked her whether she was worried about graduating. Her response (and my lesson learned) was, “The army has spent too much on me NOT to let me graduate from this course.”
And so she did. I didn’t actually see her jump, because they moved all the females into one group during “jump week”. But bottom-line, she was wearing the same jump wings as me. Thus endeth the lesson...