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All 8 women fail Ranger School: Some Rangers say standards should change
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | May 29, 2015 | Anne Mulrine

Posted on 05/29/2015 8:29:09 PM PDT by centurion316

On Friday, the Army is expected to announce that all the women who attempted to graduate from Ranger School had officially failed to meet the standards, according to a military source.

Ranger School, which grooms the Army’s most elite special operations fighting force, opened its doors to women for the first time this year. Eight of the 20 women who originally entered the school's first co-ed class were allowed to recycle through the program after they fell out in their first go-round. The Friday announcement will confirm that this happened again.

To many, this means the system is working as it should.

The Rangers are the best of the best, and being a Ranger means passing a physical test that pushes body and mind to the breaking point. If women can’t do it, the argument goes, then they shouldn’t be Rangers.

But there is another opinion quietly being voiced as well: that Ranger School is more akin to a rite of passage – an opportunity for men to “thump their chest,” as one Ranger puts it – than a realistic preparation for leading in war. That women can actually make Ranger units more effective. And that the standards that keep them out are outdated.

It is an opinion, perhaps surprisingly, that comes from two current Rangers.

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To: Kirkwood

A satisfied Ranger is an effective Ranger.


61 posted on 05/29/2015 11:08:38 PM PDT by 353FMG (muzzies are a national security liability.)
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To: centurion316
The standards for Ranger school were designed to keep most men from passing, so the fact that very few women will ever pass it shouldn't be surprising at all.

Eventually, a woman will pass without the standards being changed.

The Ranger standards should be set at whatever level is needed to produce good Rangers. Period.

62 posted on 05/29/2015 11:15:23 PM PDT by sargon
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To: jeffersondem
"Yes. Standards are about to be lowered faster than you can say “President Obama supports a strong military.” "


63 posted on 05/29/2015 11:48:53 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Secret Agent Man

Yes, I know how consensus works. Everyone’s opinions matter except for those who don’t matter.


64 posted on 05/29/2015 11:54:37 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: centurion316

The chicoms and russkies are laughing their asses off.


65 posted on 05/29/2015 11:55:17 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

At least when liberals are involved. If they don’t want change they scream consensus (even when there is none). If they do want change, doesn’t matter if consensus is opposed to the libtards’ desires.


66 posted on 05/29/2015 11:56:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Eagles6

You know that.


67 posted on 05/30/2015 12:00:15 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: centurion316
These students did not meet the standard for a number of reasons, including leading patrols, poor peer evaluations,

Poor peer evaluations? WTH? That really degrades the TAC officers or instuctors jobs, thats borderline mutiny.

68 posted on 05/30/2015 12:56:53 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Travis McGee

“Close ranks! Nut to butt, hut!”

I heard that command more times in Navy boot camp in 1976 waiting our turn to enter the chow hall than I care to remember. One day a jerk wadd behind me made some grinding motions on my posterior side that set me off, and I drew serious attention to myself and especially the bozo with homosexual tendencies at my defenseless backside. I made sure that he wasn’t behind me ever again. Queers in the military serving openly and in close quarters with heteros is most definitely a very bad policy. I would not make it without being slammed in the brig for grievous assault in today’s military...


69 posted on 05/30/2015 2:45:32 AM PDT by Birdsbane ("Onward through the fog!" ... Oat Willie)
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To: centurion316

They didn’t even get out of the 1st phrase.


70 posted on 05/30/2015 2:52:46 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: DaxtonBrown
Well the day that a WNBA team can beat a mid-level high-school team, I will believe women should be Rangers.

For many, many years I've been saying "pro women teams" are no better than average boys high school teams...at best. It's one reason why the attendance is always so low.

Yet the Marxist media continue to promote these faux "pro sports" teams as something special and the equivalent of mens' pro teams.

It's just more indoctrination for the sheeple...

71 posted on 05/30/2015 2:56:52 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: centurion316

I guess the women didn’t get enough testosterone in their last injection.

I guess they will have to go through weeks of testosterone therapy and can’t enter the system until they grow beards and male parts.


72 posted on 05/30/2015 3:46:44 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Kirkwood
“That women can actually make Ranger units more effective.”

How so?

Better lewinskys, less stress.

73 posted on 05/30/2015 3:50:05 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: Kirkwood

“That women can actually make Ranger units more effective.”

How so?”

Don’t you know that the vagina has superior combat intellect? Sheesh.


74 posted on 05/30/2015 3:53:26 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: bgill

And that the standards that keep them out are outdated.

Welcome to the New America. The Barack Obama/MSM America where being the best of the Best is no longer the goal. The goal is to make everyone the same. Not by raising those that are lower but by lowering us all to the same point.


75 posted on 05/30/2015 4:23:33 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: centurion316
Some Rangers say standards should change

So court martial them for seditious treason already.

76 posted on 05/30/2015 5:13:27 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: centurion316
Ranger School, which grooms the Army’s most elite special operations fighting force,...

This is a false statement. The Ranger's are not the most elite. They just blow stuff up. Delta is the most elite followed by the SF (Green Beret).

77 posted on 05/30/2015 5:19:00 AM PDT by Wiz-Nerd
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To: centurion316
If women can’t do it, the argument goes, then they shouldn’t be Rangers

Pass the damn test or move along...
78 posted on 05/30/2015 5:20:36 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: Caipirabob

“Some Rangers say standards should change”

I wonder what Sgt. Matt Eversmann and those who ran the Mogadishu mile think about this.


79 posted on 05/30/2015 5:22:06 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: centurion316

the fact they are women is not relevant. they are all persons.

no person can be a ranger if they don’t measure up

gender has no part of the matter


80 posted on 05/30/2015 5:25:41 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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