Posted on 08/18/2015 9:51:22 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
CNN)Two women are about to make history by becoming the first female soldiers to graduate from the Army's exhausting Ranger School.
They're among the 96 students who will graduate from the intensive training program Friday in Fort Benning, Georgia.
This was the first year the Army opened the course to women on a trial basis.
"This course has proven that every Soldier, regardless of gender, can achieve his or her full potential," Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh said in a statement.
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BS. Exceptions are not the rule...they are EXCEPTIONS, which is why they are notable. And I suspect these women might have been helped in ways other Rangers were not....since the edict came out from Team Valerie to get some female graduates.
They want equality. Give it to them. But my guess is that they only want “equality” when it somehow benefits them. Like all feminists, they also want preferential treatment when they can use it to their advantage.
And how much money was wasted training them? Were any males allowed to retake any Phase 3 times? A ten percent graduation rate sounds pretty cost ineffective to me. And while were are downsizing our military why are we wasting money training someone for a job they will never do?
I smell Pentagon perfume all over this and it stinks.
Already said the gals won’t be assigned to a Ranger battalion because of this little thing that you have to be MOS 11B (infantryman), which is still closed to females.
So how will they put all that Ranger training to use?
Powder Puff Rangers.
The army thought about it and doesn’t care. That’s what women want. That’s what women get.
The weakening of the US military continues.
In this brave new world, shouldn't women be draft eligible just as men are?
Bring this little unintended consequence up to one of your liberal friends and whatch thier heads explode.
I think Rush Limbaugh is jumping the shark over this. It is sad....
The Army lost this fight when they couldn’t express the reason for Ranger School.
I disagree. The disruption in team dynamics, logistical needs, sexual interaction, etc. is not worth the politically-correct positive aspects to it.
Not that there is any real-life politically-correct component that is worthwhile to begin with.
They will be able to obtain promotion opportunities.
That is what this is all about. (Besides the destruction of the military)
First, these are West Point officers, so we’re talking of a very high level to begin with.
As to whether ANY female could make it through Ranger School, I had my doubts (and still sort of have my doubts). But, if the two made it without the course being watered down, more power to them.
Now the challenge is merely elevated to another level. While they met a standard only a small percentage of men can meet, how do they stake up against the average man who meets that challenge?
Think of it this way: what happens when the day comes when a woman makes the final cut for an NBA team? We’d be talking of a marginal NBA player who could be a dominant WNBA player.
Similarly here. A woman officer tough enough to be Ranger qualified would probably be an outstanding commander of a combat service company, but maybe only an average unit commander of a Ranger unit.
No question, correct.
They dont get to join theranger group.
Notice there is never a discussion of a nba player playing on a wnba team.
“Any society that sends its women to fight before it sends its non-shaving boys and cane-borne old men deserves to be destroyed, and will be by those who do not make that mistake”.
Any nation that sends it women to fight it’s wars is not fit to be called a nation. End of discussion.
IOW, the gov wasted two slots for men could have made Rangers. Sort of like the gov giving college slots to illegals rather than US students.
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