I wasn’t there, so I don’t know and most comments are in the same boat. I suspect that they made the “standards”, but I doubt that they spent much time carrying the machinegun or the AT weapon. The goal is for the entire team to finish the patrol, so it would be a dumb move to make the female carry the MG.
The issue is not what happened with these two women, it’s what will happen when Ranger School is directed to normalize the standards so that women can graduate at the 40% rate for men. The women graduation rate stands at 10% as of today.
Keep hearing too how they passed and deserve to be rangers, but here is the problem and I faced it when the military were doing trials back in the 90’s.
We had a woman assigned to us in the Arctic during Arctic mountain warfare training. Yes she was useless and could not do the job to the highest degree like all the other, but the problems also arose about how she flirted, how some men flirted back. We had not seen a woman for 3 months by then.
Unit cohesion broke down, there were arguments about who should carry what for her etc etc.
Got back to base after living in snow holes for a week and she still went and flirted, the men were divided and it was all drama.
Even if she is wonder woman then it does not mean drama, and being flirting or sleeping around or getting pregnant won’t happen.
If women want a special forces then go and form a all woman one where the drama can be kept out of it.