As you can see, these two women benefited from a LOT of politically motivated interference.
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I am in very close contact with the Ranger Camp. The comments below from a Mountain Ranger Course Cadre [Ranger School instructor/grader] are pretty much what has happened.
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When the administration wants something to succeed, they will do anything at all to make it succeed. For those of you who went to Ranger school, I will assume that you did not have a general officer as a lane grader (called a walker these days I guess) [the officer who observe you when you lead a patrol and grades you on whether you passed or failed]. When you are social engineering, you make things work regardless of the standards or the consequences because it’s the engineering that’s important. the breakdown:
Army wanted 200 of the most badass women from the army, guard and reserves to start ranger school in April. The deal was they had to pass RTAC to get a slot.
138 women attended several RTAC classes and 20 passed
The 20 women were put in their own unit to train exclusively for Ranger school in the months preceding their start date. 1 quit before school started.
19 women started Ranger School in April.
11 failed in the first 3 days: pt test, land nav and road March
All 8 failed patrols and were inserted into Darby the following class.
All 8 failed patrols again. 5 were sent home and 3 were offered day 1 recycles.
Nearing the end of their third attempt at Darby, all three had 2 failed patrols, and General Scott Miller (movement excellence commander of Ft Benning) showed up to be their guest walker. [As far as I know, no officer above the rank of colonel was ever a walker or lane grader. When I went to Ranger School, I believe the graders were all either NCOs or captains or majors. I do not even believe that any officer associated with the school was a general including the commandant of the ranger school. I think he was a LTC or Col.] All three passed.
All three advanced to Mountains Nearing the end of the patrol phase of mountains all three women had 2 failed patrols and guess who showed up again to be their guest RI [?] walker..... 2 of the three passed, and one has been recycled.
Some of the guys I work with here remember Miller from Delta [Force]. I'm sure that's not what's being reported, but when we first heard a general had walked them, three of them chimed in with "Scotty Miller" in unison.
They will pass, and probably be honor grads. "
Sounds like command interference to me...[plain old dishonesty to me if they did not earn passing grades]
Does not surprise me. The General’s Boss most likely told him (Miller) if you want to make three stars, there will be female Ranger graduates! So he Santa Claused them so they would pass. Sad times. This PC BS will be the end of us, if it hasn’t already sealed our fate!
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I’m getting the same story from several reliable inside sources at Benning. This rangerette goat rope was set up before it even started. This is the sad state of our senior military “leadership” now.
Believable. Sure, these PC games are fun until Rangers die unnecessarily.
That would be my recollection as well. Since Ranger School is a small unit combat leadership school, and women are not allowed to serve in these roles, what's the point?
Is this an unverified email?
Aha!!
As if we didn't already know the story behind the story ...
Based on what I have heard from my very close Ranger sources, this sounds very plausible. Unfortunately.