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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

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To: centurion316
If they can't hack it, too bad. Like everybody else that washes out, let them go someplace else and find something else to do - but NOT be a Ranger.

Why should the standards be relaxed just because they were born with a vagina? Is that something that qualifies them to have special treatment?

41 posted on 05/29/2015 9:26:03 PM PDT by Gritty (The more we submit to violent jihadi intimidation, the more we are going to get-Robert Spencer)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

And scrolled.


42 posted on 05/29/2015 9:28:08 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: centurion316

Can’t they have one standard for the men and one for the women?


43 posted on 05/29/2015 9:35:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: tumblindice

Good point.

“Some Rangers say that soon they will be issued Starship Troopers exo-suits, and muscles and bones won’t matter anymore.”

“Some Rangers say.”


44 posted on 05/29/2015 9:41:25 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: centurion316

I would be fine with changing our standards for Rangers, provided we can be sure our enemies do the same.


45 posted on 05/29/2015 9:43:58 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
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To: nickcarraway

Yes, but not if they are going to be Rangers.

Can some women play in the NFL, if they just have different standards?

Start with your team, see how it works, we’ll all find out in the fall.

Football is just a game, injuries the hazard.

People die in combat, even with the strongest, toughest men you can put in the field.

Add 120# PFC Sally Sweetbreath, and you have basically introduced a “walking wounded” into the unit, where the men will have to take turns carrying her load, and helping her over obstacles, while not raising issues of privacy when going potty out in the bare desert, or jealously or love triangles or favoritism.

Basically, just blow up unit cohesion and make the squad into a Peyton Place drama, on its way to being ambushed or overrun by a SERIOUS military unit.


46 posted on 05/29/2015 9:45:44 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: centurion316

What a bunch of pu.... oh never mind.


47 posted on 05/29/2015 9:52:20 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (Sprinkles are for winners.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

It’s all about deconstrucing America. First woman then trannies. The left is fine with lowering standards so that shemales are our elete force


48 posted on 05/29/2015 9:56:21 PM PDT by Blackirish
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To: Travis McGee
and you have basically introduced a “walking wounded” into the unit

That is a good line.

49 posted on 05/29/2015 10:03:16 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: centurion316

apparently some women watch movies like Resident Evil and think they can be just like Alice.

I do wonder do these women soldiers even prepare for the Ranger school or do they rely on their basic training background for preparing?????


50 posted on 05/29/2015 10:06:52 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: centurion316

The women always want the easy, less physical jobs like cops, office jobs, meter maids, receptionist, teachers, DMV clerks etc. They have no interest in jobs like roofing, house painting, plumbers, mechanics etc.

For the most part women want the power, the bucks and or prestige, but not a job were you physically have to work your butt off daily for 25 years.


51 posted on 05/29/2015 10:17:13 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: centurion316; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; ...

Ping.


52 posted on 05/29/2015 10:18:02 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Travis McGee
Basically, just blow up unit cohesion and make the squad into a Peyton Place drama, on its way to being ambushed or overrun by a SERIOUS military unit.

Look at it this way: when they get orders to deal with US, it'll be like taking candy from a STUPID baby.

All those toys...

53 posted on 05/29/2015 10:25:48 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: SoFloFreeper
"Change the standards so the women can qualify??? What a bunch of CRAP."

In order for women to qualify they must be masculinized.
In order for women to qualify, men must be feminized.

When they lower the standards, any guy who graduates won't know if he graduated because he's good or because his strength is equal a woman's.

Men are going to be SO MESSED UP!

I wish men would man up and reacquaint women with the kitchen...where they belong.

54 posted on 05/29/2015 10:33:18 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: centurion316

I am a woman. I don’t expect people to change the standards for me just so I can succeed. If those women can’t meet the standards, they shouldn’t be Rangers. Period. Lives depend on it.


55 posted on 05/29/2015 10:33:35 PM PDT by grateful
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To: MagUSNRET

It is actually Marxism-—to destroy the US military by destroying Excellence and rewarding mediocrity. Pretending that women are interchangeable with men is pure Marxism and to destroy all biological connections and destroy Individual identity-—for the collective-—group think mindset where there can be no individual excellence which is what created the US Constitution and the most brilliant Western cultures of all time.

To destroy Individualism for the collective—the Leftists have to erase Reason and Logic for “pretending”-—to destroy Reason and Logic-—for dumb, useful idiots. For their utopia, they have to normalize vice like sodomy so children will believe the dumbest things which will flip Good and Evil. Vice creates slaves only. Without Virtue, civil societies collapse.

Destroying Excellence (Virtue) is the MO of Marxists-—to destroy Merit, Freedom, Competition, etc-—to destroy what made Western Civilization superior to all other cultures.

Can’t have the ideology of the heterosexual males who had the greatest minds in the history of man-—which created the greatest, most free country in the history of man.

Minds have to be destroyed-—Reason eliminated, and Vice made normal where competition and merit are destroyed so Excellence is not possible.


56 posted on 05/29/2015 10:34:47 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: centurion316
For Col. Jason Dempsey, a fellow Ranger and West Point graduate, this points to a need for “reassessing what war-fighting is, and what’s really important,” he says, rather than “having 100,000 guys who are essentially pack mules.”

Well, being a Pack Mule can be pretty important during a war.

If you are on a mission in a mountainous region where even a real mule could not climb the grades that you will traverse and any air drop of supplies would give away your position and the only supplies you will have are the supplies you carry with you being a pack mule will be the difference between success and failure where failure probably means you are dead.

For the foreseeable future strength and endurance will still be critical attributes for Special Operations. A special ops soldier on a mission will have to carry all of the food, water and ammunition he will need on that mission. If that soldier can not carry an 80 to a 100 pound pack on a 5 mile mountainous hike he should not be in a Special Ops battalion. If he is permitted to be there he is putting his life and the lives of his fellows at unnecessary risk.

I am surprised that Ranger officer would suggest otherwise. I guess he is bucking for that star.

57 posted on 05/29/2015 10:45:08 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: centurion316
Army Rangers (or any other Special Operations operators) NEED this rigorous selection process to assure only the best of the best of the best qualify. No double standards or waivers based on gender are allowable. If the ladies cannot pass the tests (that also disqualify males), that's too bad. These warriors are at the very tip of the spear and affirmative action hires have no business doing this deadly work. These demented “equality” liberals cannot begin to understand how dangerous the SpecOps jobs truly are and the kind of courage and endurance needed for these jobs.
58 posted on 05/29/2015 10:45:52 PM PDT by MasterGunner01 ( Barbara Daly Danko)
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To: centurion316
All of this hoopla about putting women in these SpecOps jobs boils down to one thing: getting female officers the right credentials to fast track them to high command positions. This has absolutely nothing to do with ability to perform the job, but everything to do with politics of the Left. Notice that there's never been a stampede of enlisted females to sign up for these SpecOps jobs? It's always female officers that see this as a way to fast promotion and preferential treatment. It is that simple and it is totally WRONG.
59 posted on 05/29/2015 11:00:41 PM PDT by MasterGunner01 ( Barbara Daly Danko)
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To: centurion316
The Christian Science Monitor

Not Christian
Not Scientific
Doesn't monitor anything


60 posted on 05/29/2015 11:06:09 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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