Posted on 12/08/2015 8:23:01 PM PST by pboyington
It’s been a week since Ash Carter made his earth-shattering announcement authorizing women to serve in the combat arms and special operations units of the armed forces. Obviously, it was Obama’s plan to roll out Carter in the wake of the San Bernardino attacks, in order to avoid any scrutiny from conservative media outlets.
Congress has thirty days to review the catastrophic decision before it becomes full blown policy.
It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall and listen to the conversations that must be going on behind closed doors at the various special operations units in this country and across the world.
Yes sir, the lactation stations are being installed now in the motor pool and in the arms room.
A day care center next to the demo range; WILCO sir, I’ll get the engineers on it ASAP.
Sir, the mobile hair and nail salon will be housed in an old M577, which will be painted pink.
Colonel, the SF Group Run next week will include each trooper double-timing with a pregnancy simulator. Several gung-ho volunteers are doing the run with twin and triplet simulators. De Oppresso Liber!
Sir, all of our hand grenades are being modified to be 90% lighter so women can throw them. We had to take out the explosives though, which makes them basically ineffective…
Roger that. Don’t say anything for now until I retire.
Uh, yes sir.
You think Ranger School is tough? Take the escalator through hell to the mezzanine level, past the food court, over the River Styx and enter BUD/S, the US Navy’s Basic Underwater Demolition School, aka Navy SEAL training.
How the Navy is going to drop the standards to graduate a woman from BUD/S is going to be a journey into creativity and downright dishonesty. BUD/S will soon become something between a mirage, a hologram and a Disneyworld ride.
No doubt, there will be a female SEAL graduating from BUD/S, if she has to be touted around the US Navy Special Warfare Center in Coronado, California, like the dead Bernie Lomax in the 1980’s cult comedy film, Weekend at Bernie’s.
Let’s just call it Weekend at BUD/S, because in actuality that’s how long any woman and most men could last there.
“BUD/S is a 24-week training challenge that develops the SEAL candidates’ mental and physical stamina and leadership skills. Each BUD/S phase includes timed physical condition tests, with the time requirements becoming more demanding each week. BUD/S consists of a three-week orientation followed by three phases, covering physical conditioning (seven weeks), combat diving (seven weeks), and land warfare (seven weeks) respectively. Officer and enlisted personnel go through the same training program. It is designed to develop and test their stamina, leadership, and ability to work as a team.
BUD/S INDOC is a three-week course that introduces candidates to Coronado, the Naval Special Warfare Center and the BUD/S lifestyle. During INDOC, Navy SEAL instructors introduce candidates to BUD/S physical training, the obstacle course and other unique training aspects. This part of training is designed to prepare candidates for day one of the first phase.
The first phase of BUD/S assesses SEAL candidates in physical conditioning, water competency, teamwork and mental tenacity. Physical conditioning utilizes running, swimming and calisthenics and grows harder and harder as the weeks progress. Candidates will participate in weekly four mile timed runs in boots and timed obstacle courses, swim distances up to two miles wearing fins in the ocean and learn small boat seamanship.
The first two weeks of basic conditioning prepare candidates for the third week, also known as “Hell Week.†During Hell Week, candidates participate in five and a half days of continuous training. Each candidate sleeps at most four hours during the entire week, runs more than 200 miles, and does physical training for more than 20 hours per day. The remaining four weeks involve the acquisition of various methods of conducting hydrographic surveys and creating a hydrographic chart.â€
After Hell Week, there are seven weeks of combat diving training, seven weeks of land warfare training, followed by three weeks at jump school. If you’re alive after all this, you still have another 26 weeks of SEAL Qualification Training (SQT).
So, there it is. And, we’re now supposed to swallow that PC laced cyanide pill just like the Ranger School Pinocchios that are being shoved down our throat.
The lies just keep on truckin’!
This country is stuck in a morass of PC self-deception, lies and deceit. We can’t say who we’re fighting. We can’t say Muslims are terrorists. We can’t say this or that. We are supposed to believe 37 year old mommies are now part Airborne Rangers. Now, somehow, someway, women are going to be Green Berets, Delta Force troopers, Marine Raiders and Navy SEALS.
If women can’t get through the Marine Infantry Officers’ Course, how in the name of God are they passing Marine Raiders or Marine Recon training?
Have no doubt, you will be hearing cries of utter joy from the Hillaryites of how Debbie or Jenny made it through the toughest training the US Navy has to offer, BUD/S school.
Meanwhile, the other candidates, the instructors, the chain of command, the fish and the seagulls and the seaweed know what a giant farce it really is.
Everyone seems to know except for Ash and Trash Carter and President Bozo the Clown.
Putin knows. Xi knows. The Mullahs know. ISIS knows. The North Korean freak show in charge knows.
Our enemies know. They know they are going to kick our proverbial butts.
Meanwhile, if you’re down at beautiful Coronado on the azure Pacific, you might just see four SEALs carrying one female around the base.
Grab a beer and watch the insanity unfold at Weekend at BUD/S.
Pray hard that this madness is stopped. The survival of our nation depends on it.
Call your congress-critter every day -- but above all pray.
But the women had been allowed lower standards and they knew it. It also seem the commanding officer bowed to White House pressure and abused his command authority to pressure field instructors to pass unqualified women
All involved should be invited to resign
Apparently the writer of this article did not see the Demi Moore movie! ;-)
Weekend at Bernie’s is more entertaining than GI Jane LOL!
I honestly wouldn’t recommend that any young man volunteer for military service until this fraudulent regime is out of office.
I’m 65, but still think I could pass the BUDs initial swim assessments. I’d withdraw thereafter, before I was disqualified.
I hope that there are enough good spirits and knowledgeable troops around to put it all back together again when this current PC madness ends.
Even in my youth and while in great shape, I couldn’t have made it into these elite programs, and I tip my hat to those that did and who served with distinction and often in the shadows.
Those women are not Rangers, which is a common misconception. They are not US Army Rangers. To be considered Rangers, they would have to be part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, which is a direct action special operations force that has always been elite light infantry and in the last few years become even more elite (moving from just taking over airfields and direct action raids, to being attached to JSOC for Delta Force and SEAL Team 6 support, and in several cases, doing their own T1 missions). They are hard men doing hard work.
What those ladies did is simply attend 'Ranger School,' something that many soldiers do. Ranger School is a leadership program with a good dab of physical in it, but finishing Ranger School does not make one a Ranger. It gives you a tab, but to be a US Army Ranger you need to get a scroll. Finishing Ranger School gets one a tab. Getting selected into the 75th Ranger Regiment gets one a scroll, and makes on a Ranger.
I know it doesn't seem like a big thing, but many articles were making it seem like those ladies became Rangers ...they are not.
As for women in special operations. The issue is that to be part of the elite one has to be elite. They (usually) operate in small independent groups in situations that may involve being far behind enemy lines. A good case-in-point is when a British SAS mission in the Gulf War went upside down, and the survivors basically had to trek a very long distance in hostile territory. Another example is a British SBS mission in Afghanistan, where they had to take over a fort that had gotten overrun by Taliban or Al Qaeda. Anyone who cannot carry their own weight (literally and figuratively) can compromise the mission and lead to injury or death. Thus, lowering standards just to include women would be not just wrong but quite stupid as well.
However, there have been women in various special operations units - but only in highly specialized roles. For example, GROM (a Polish spec-ops unit that is considered hard as nails and has served alongside Delta) does have women. Why? For missions where to infiltrate a place so as to track a target (and pass as someone who is benign), it may make sense for the 'drunk' man to be walking down the street with an equally 'drunk' and amorous woman. Seeing two men walking at 9pm may draw more attention that seeing a man and a woman kissing at the corner, and it would be better than the SpecOps guy just paying a prostitute for a kiss since the female GROM can be able to shoot (quite well) while a hired prostitute would be dead weight.
However, again, it is obvious this is a highly specific circumstance.
Having women join en masse, and doing so by lowering targets, would be a mistake.
To all SEALS, that's a joke...and I don't live at the address on my drivers license, I moved...somewhere else...far away.
Good to know we have a say. Didn’t know that.
You’ll love this, Matt.
Just another sign of the (end) times.
bkmk
I would like to think that a female who managed to pass the initial selection process, initial training, advanced training and on — all the way to being assigned to an actual, deployable team — would by then have a great desire to never fail, never quit and execute the mission to desired completion *without* merely being unnecessary low-speed/high-drag on her team for the sake of PC social-plumage. I mean, to get that far, I would hope that they would deeply appreciate the intensely critical need to NOT be a liability down-range (or anywhere else for that matter). Matter of fact, this goes for both males & females.
I would *like* to think that.
Hope is not a strategy, and trying your best at something you can't do doesn't excuse you from the damage caused by your inevitable failure.
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