Posted on 03/12/2022 5:56:19 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
One hundred women have graduated from the U.S. Army’s esteemed Ranger School as of Friday, Task & Purpose has learned.
“The Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade confirmed that the 100th woman graduated the course with Ranger Class 03-22,” said Col. Antwan L. Dunmyer, Commander of the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade at Fort Benning, Georgia. “She was the only woman to graduate with that class.”.....
The first women graduated Ranger School in August 2015, and since then women have continued breaking barriers. Capt. Kristen Griest, one of the very first women to earn the Ranger tab, became the first female infantry officer in the Army. Another one of the first 10 women to graduate Ranger School, Capt. Shaina Coss, became the first woman to lead Rangers in combat.
(Excerpt) Read more at taskandpurpose.com ...
Gulf War II showed there weren’t enough men enlisting, so we overlooked felonies to fill quotas - so I didn’t jump to any conclusions. Our well-advertised increasing sign-on bonuses are very real as well; we have plenty of men, but not enough who are willing to die or kill someone else because someone with more stripes, or a politician, tell them to do so.
During that war two female soldiers were captured (Jessica Lynch and Shoshana Johnson); apparently both were wounded and neither fired a shot (despite attempts by the media to portray an Alamo-style defense, which Lynch refuted).
Exactly.. lower the standards until they pass and then call them a Ranger. I think not.
Most military qualification school attendees are probably unnecessary. In practical terms, nearly everyone with airborne wings got them as an ego stroking participation trophy, mass parachute insertions have been off the table for war for many decades ...and in twenty years of war, there were only a handful of combat jumps, and of those at least half were for show. Meanwhile, how many screwed up knees and broken backs did the Army sacrifice to keep that reward going?
Anyone not assigned as combat arms in the 101st got a participation trophy for going through air assault school. Going to a pin school isn't much more than a merit badge for some of these schools, and if we were serious, the knowledge would be spread around more widelt and the actual decorations earned only for people living the life. A whole mess of short tabbers only went to Ranger school for the promotion points or OER achievement bullet, not to be a part of the Regiment and to live that life.
If that's your military, where career advancement is your end goal, not killing people and breaking stuff... yeah, it makes sense to push women through ranger school.
Rangers aren’t all jobs in the military. Where were the gaps? Logistics, Intel, Cops? Just because all four branches have quota issues does not mean Special Forces does. And if you need to lower standards, lower them for men.
I just pointed out one egregious example of lowering them for men (felons are OK), but they’ve dropped the standards for everything at this point. A couple of years ago I read accounts from a drill instructor regarding how their jobs have changed; as enlistments plummeted (nobody wanted to die in undeclared wars - which offer no Geneva Convention protections -in which Americans had 0 interest), the DIs were doing everything possible to pass recruits. As he put it, they focused on helping them through rather than weeding out the unfit; didn’t bode well for those troops when they went into action later.
Yeah, I definitely want to hear that war story.
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Well would you settle for the referenced puff piece? There is no actual story. Did she lead from the front, middle or rear. What happened during her action? Was there enemy contact? How long? etc.
Meet the first woman to lead elite Army Rangers in combat
“What inspires me as a leader is just the men and women that serve alongside me.”
By Haley Britzky | Updated Sep 7, 2021 3:38 PM
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-shaina-coss-75th-ranger-regiment/
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You answered nothing.
I’m talking about Special Forces only. Do you understand?
Plenty of guys with one felony are fine by me.
Knock some guy out in a bar fight…felony.
Sign him up.
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The military has already been publicly accused of lowering standards for women in special forces - and the accusations came from military men who witnessed the lowering of standards.
I hike/camp with plenty of surplus gear, and while the modular concept is great, it is also clear that it designed to let a 50-lb. woman into a unit with 175-lb. men with a modified load. They haven’t even issued mess kits for a couple of decades; these “soldiers” are training for a war where the field kitchen is close by. We just lost two wars fought that way...
Great. Now go fight WW3 while I stay home and play videogames.
We “lost” due ROE and a foolish mission.
One can’t build a nation for savages.
I don’t know about Jennifer Lynch, but I think Shoshana Johnson was assigned to tow disabled tanks around the desert. :-P
Boy this will really scare our enemies!!!
Whattup?
Imagine the reaction of the Iraqis that captured those two; they would have believed Baghdad Bob if he said the Republican Guard had killed all of America’s men so we were sending women now.
What rules of engagement are necessary when we didn’t declare war anyway?
You’re right that we can’t build a nation of savages; that is why Trump made a deal and returned Afghanistan to the very people we invaded to topple. There was no reason to waste American lives and gear there; it was just business, and some got very wealthy from it. Even the abandoned gear was built by paying Americans huge sums to build it.
I was an Autopilot troop. My trainer after tech school was one of the first “women” allowed in maintenance.
I’m sure she had dated more women than I had. She was a good trainer and a heck of a troubleshooter...and could push a -60 down the ramp.
I thought she was the standard, but I found that wasn’t true after PCSing.
Whattup! If I captured Shoshana Johnson I’d be scared sh!tless. LOL.
By what degree did they lower the qualifications so that women could pass? I would think it would practically be a cake walk at this point.
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