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Posted on 09/10/2018 10:26:14 AM PDT by pboyington
The lies from Fort Benning just keep on comin’…
In 2015, former Secretary of Defense Ash and Trash Carter desperately needed some proof; real or fraudulent, that women could hack it in the combat arms. The $36 million dollar, Marine Corps study couldn’t do that. It clearly showed in minute detail how all female and coed units were slaughtered by all male units in simulated combat.
Enter Captain Griest and First Lieutenant Haver, who, along with several other females, were attending Ranger School down at Fort Benning, Georgia. The word quickly went out. There would be one or two Lady Rangers presented to the world, in order to give Carter the ‘proof’ he needed to authorize women to serve in the combat arms and special operations forces of the US military.
As Griest and Haver went through the grueling course and then ‘graduated’, rumors began to seep out that they were being given special treatment in the form of dieticians, endless chances to repeat the school, multiple opportunities to pass patrols, showers every three days and pink curtained cat holes for privacy. Fueling the fire was their plump appearance at graduation. Normally, Ranger School males look like Japanese POW camp survivors on graduation day, strangely, the ladies looked well fed.
People Magazine reporter, Susan Keating seemed to confirm the rumors in her September, 2015 in article titled, ‘Was It Fixed? Army General Told Subordinates: ‘A Woman Will Graduate Ranger School,’ Sources Say.’
Keating’s story was quickly lambasted by former Ranger Training Brigade Commander, Colonel David Fivecoat and former Fort Benning Maneuver Center commander, General Scott Miller, who both adamantly claimed that there was no special treatment given to Griest and Haver, while demanding that Keating reveal her sources.
Instead of maintaining the standards, Fivecoat and Miller were more interested in persecuting whistleblowers.
Meanwhile, US Defense Watch was given documents that showed Haver had been one of 50 women at Fort Carson, who spent 90 straight days preparing for Ranger School. In fact, Haver flunked land navigation repeatedly at Carson and should never have been sent to Benning in the first place. Even in the days of GPS, a Ranger who can’t use a map and compass is as worthless as a golfer who can’t putt.
Miller was promoted to four star general and is currently serving as commander of all US-led forces in Afghanistan. Fivecoat retired with a full pension and Tricare benefits.
While Keating’s article hit the Internet, Congressman Steve Russell, a former army officer and Ranger School graduate demanded to see the Ranger School records for Griest and Haver. His attempts to obtain the records were repeatedly thwarted by Secretary of Army John McCone.
Russell was then informed that both Griest and Haver’s records had been destroyed, in violation of army policy. Russell’s requests to view the Green Cards, or Ranger School transcripts for the two women were also denied. To date, Russell has received nothing from the army.
Two months later, Major Lisa Jaster, a 37 year old mother of two ‘graduated’ from Ranger School, in what can only be described as a Diversity Bridge too Far, in the army’s attempts to prove that women can successfully graduate from the course. A 37 year old man graduating from the school is miraculous, a 37 year old mommy of two graduating is a fraud.
After Mommy Ranger’s graduation, another baker’s dozen of female graduated from the school in the last three years.
It was hoped that Secretary of Defense James Mattis would eradicate the PC madness infecting the military, but to date, Mattis has shown himself to be just as worthless as Ash Carter.
Since 2015, the army believed it was doing a successful job of covering up what was really going on at Benning, a conspiracy to defraud the American people and our national security, in order to placate Pentagon diversity crusaders and idiots like Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
But, two stories have recently shed light on Ranger School once again.
In June, this year, a source at the Mountain Ranger Camp at Dahlonega had informed USDW that a female Ranger School student was indeed pregnant. Apparently, this student and her boyfriend were in the same Ranger School class. Both students were recycled during the Benning phase. While in the ‘Gulag’ awaiting the beginning of the Benning phase recycle, she got pregnant.
The female was eventually taken out of the course while in the Mountain Phase, and has reportedly been offered a chance to recycle after her maternity leave ends.
Last week, another story from Ranger School broke and it sounded a lot like what was happening at Benning in 2015. Popular Military reported that ‘the first female enlisted soldier to graduate Ranger School allegedly quit during the first phase of training and was given more opportunities to restart phases of the course, according to sources within the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade.’
According to the article, “several sources -including Ranger Instructors (RIs) whose names have been withheld- say that the NCO quit during the first phase of training, but was allowed to come back and even recycle several times, something that has never happened in a course that is supposed to automatically disqualify those who tap out.”
“She was given more recycles and even quit during the first phase,” an RI source said, speaking on conditions of anonymity.
Down the road from the first phase of Ranger school at Fort Benning, at Sand Hill, Infantry recruits claimed that a clear double-standard existed for their female counterparts, including lighter rucks and lower expectations.
“No way,” one soldier told Popular Military last year, after being asked if women were held to the same standards. “Lighter rucks, things like that.”
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
There’s an old saying, where there’s smoke, there’s fire and there’s a lot of smoke down at Benning, and there has been for three years.
You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that since 2015, a conspiracy to pass women at Ranger School has continued under the guise of the senior leadership in the Ranger Training Brigade and in the army.
In order to placate fools in Congress and their superiors, in order to pad their pensions, promotions and future defense contractor jobs, Pentagon perfumed princes have demanded female graduates from Ranger School, national security be damned.
What’s happening at Fort Benning is a disgrace to the brave Rangers who went before in Sicily, at Pointe du Hoc, on Omaha Beach, in Burma, in the Philippines, in Vietnam, Mogadishu, Iraq and Afghanistan.
What’s happening at Fort Benning is a fraud and a conspiracy that goes all the way to the desk of Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
I’ll never forget during the Grenada invasion of a female officer sitting in a jeep, crying her eyes out when the bullets flew.
Their PC crap is going to get soldiers killed. including the women being foisted upon them. Not everything is equal.
Political correctness will get people killed and will aid in the takeover of the USA. Just as planned.
Stop this madness!
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And, the guy who let it happen in 2015, is now a four star commander of all US led forces in Afghan.
This crap been going on for decades. I was a class mate of a black 1LT. The first two weeks of class were basic electronics. Nothing more than about the first few days of the first college course in basic electronics, E=IxR sort of stuff. Guy failed the test. Failed the make up. By reg, should have been kicked out of class. HQDA directed he be retained and pass the course since that MOS was under-strength black officers. File to be annotated “not to be assigned troop duties”. The saddest thing is he had a Electrical Engineering degree.
>>I’ll never forget during the Grenada invasion of a female officer <<
Is that anything like “Knight jumps Queen! Bishop jumps Queen! Everyone jumps Queen!!!”
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;)
>>And, the guy who let it happen in 2015, is now a four star commander of all US led forces in Afghan.<<
No doubt thinks an Afghan is something you knit not a dangerous place.
God help our military.
As the father of two Marines and foster son in the Army this story makes me sick. I hope Mattis is working on this stuff. I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt that it will take a little time to effect change in these areas.
May God Bless and protect our military.
Of all the abominations of the Obama administration, Ash Carter may have been the most abominable.
It’s good to be the King.
Isn’t that right, Count de Money?
Ash Carter got the mission accomplished; Gay Pride Day at Fort Bragg, women in combat arms.
De Mo-NAY
(One of the greatest segments of one of the greatest movies of all time).
T Y 4 posting. This a Military atrocity! It has been well documented, and proven to be true.
My hope is that Mattis is not actively aiding and abetting this lunacy, rather, I hope he sees it for being very destructive to The Corp he loves!
I hope is just biding his time, he has so much to accomplish...
Lower priority?
Ranger School is a leadership course. The course uses small unit operations and patrolling as the context for the challenges presented to students. Physical exertion, stamina, lack of sleep and food are all designed to push students beyond their limits. Ranger students discover their personal limits and they learn how to keep going when they exceed those limits. Some quit, others graduate. Very skilled NCO’s are there to push those limits without causing injury or death. If those NCO’s decide that someone should not graduate, they seldom do so. The purpose of the training is to prepare leaders for the stresses of leadership under duress. If females are pushed beyond their limits and still continue, so be it.
The problem is when senior officers are controlling the process for political purposes, they are subverting the design of the training which has served the Army very well over the years. Women soldiers and women officers who cannot stand up to the physical requirements of infantry combat will fail in combat where the enemy can control the environment, not senior officers. A female helicopter pilot will probably benefit from Ranger School training and will probably never encounter the physical and mental challenges that they faced in Ranger School. She will just be a pilot with a Ranger Tab, and a better one to boot. A female infantry or Ranger leader is a different matter. Failure in combat will get other soldiers killed and the mission will be at risk.
Female infantry soldiers and leaders in Afghanistan will be placed in positions that do not push them beyond their limits. There are such positions in all infantry battalions, and good infantry battalion commanders will take that into account when making decisions. It won’t become an issue until an infantry unit is overrun by a superior force and every soldier on the ground is killed or captured. That will be followed by navel gazing and second guessing that will bring this silly idea to an end.
Probably he got confused by the use of E in Ohm's law. That's how physicists write it, we EEs use V. Physicists will tell us that E is electromotiv force and voltage is only a specific form of it in units of volts yadda yadda yadda. Cut to the chase, Einstein, we're talking voltages here, not splitting atoms! Use V!
So totally understandable that he never could recover from seeing that inferior notation :-)
Anyone interested in this should read “Lesley’s War”. She was the first member of Cultural Support Team (CST) KIA. I don’t give a crap about training, could they hack it in the real world? How about females doing fast rope? They did it. The Rangers said the stayed right with them every step of the way. Part of the CST did community outreach but the other part were there when Rangers were kicking doors down and taking names. The members selected for CST went through an abbreviated Ranger Course led by Rangers. They saved soldier’s lives! They went into families where men could not go. Before they arrived there was a case where a large number of men dressed up as women and walked right out the front door in front of a group of Marines. Many times the CST members would talk quietly with females who would say, “There’s a man living in this house who is not a member of our family”. Since the death of Lesley another CST has been killed. Twelve mines linked together and a Ranger stepped on one and the female was standing 50 meters away and was killed.
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