Three females remain in Ranger School
The Washington Post reports that all three women who are still in Ranger School have passed on to the second phase, Mountain Phase, of the course, having successfully completed the first phase.
Army officials announced the result Friday, saying in a news release that 158 men and all three women will move on to tackle the next portion of Ranger School at Camp Merrill in Dahlonega, Ga., about 65 miles north of Atlanta, beginning Saturday. It was the third and final attempt for the remaining women, who had failed the initial Darby Phase at Fort Benning, Ga., twice before. A total of 362 men began the course with them June 21.
Well, I congratulate them. they’ve certainly accomplished more than I accomplished during my military career, in regards to the physical aspect of the course. I may be one of the few people out here pulling for at least one of them to graduate, you know, since a female Ranger is in the cards, inevitably. It’s better for that graduate and all future graduates if they succeed at the current standard rather than some politically expedient standard designed to force a female graduate out of the course.
I’ve seen folks on here asking whether it’s normal practice to allow soldiers a couple of shots at the course. I know of one fellow, before 9-11, who failed out of every phase for various reasons. He spent almost a year as a Ranger student until he finally graduated. I don’t know if they still do it, but I know that it’s not unheard of.
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I don’t have a problem with a female graduating from Ranger school, as long as it’s at the same standard as all other Rangers. I know plenty of guys that didn’t make it through Ranger school for one reason or another. Most were injury drops.
Go ladies Go, It’s not fair if they don’t have the same rules as the men do
Congratulations to them and the 158 males who made it.
If the mountain phase in anything like the Corps Summer Package in Bridgeport they have some funtimes ahead.
I hope these three make it through and graduate, and when they do, it will show that the standards do NOT need to be changed.
That is all.
Agree 100%. If a woman can pass training to do a mans job via men’s regulations we need them. Nobody wants to worry about a woman being able to carry a team member to safety. I hope you all pass…
Police academy training for women are the same as males as it should be…
Looking at it that way, yeah, if they legitimately pass under the current standards, they’ve earned my respect. Alas, I’m sure the SJW Social Engineers in DC want there to be graduation quotas as well.
I don’t believe you’re one of the few. I think most of us will be happy if one or more make it, as was stated upthread, standards weren’t bent or lowered for that to happen.
1. We don’t actually know that standards and practices remain true and unbent re: these women and their passing through to this point.
2. Long ago, I learned that with such things, it is foolish in the extreme to view any part or piece of anything pushed by the left as a discrete and separate thing. I also learned that the destructionists rely on feelz rather than facts. So, I do not feelz for these women. Instead, I look at where all this is pushing towards and that is mixed gender infantry squads.
3. The day mixed gender infantry squads becomes a fact is the day our military ceases to have anything to do with war-fighting capability.
4. The disastrous failure, when it is finally tested in war, will be blamed on everyone and everything other than the actual culprits and the very well known incompetence of mixed gendered infantry. Extra infantry (both male and female) are going to die. No one actually guilty will be held accountable.
It’s going to happen and no. I am not cool with that. Not any part or piece of it.
Speaking from direct hand knowledge from the RIs ‘across the street’, they aren’t just pencil whipping them through. Although several RIs have been counseled for being harder on the women than they are on male candidates.
So if these three made it to Mountain, they did it above board and on their own.
Counseled huh? I wonder how that came about.
The competition between these three women to be the “One” must be fierce.
I wonder how they have them separated or together in the training class? Would they support each other? Would they “buddy fuck” each other?
Ranger School is a strange place that brings out very interesting qualities in people.
Yes indeed. I remember talking to one fellow Warrior that graduated telling me about one of his clasmate’s stated opinion during written peer eval, he said “Oh, it’s fuck your Buddy time!”.
I bet they’ll have better success in the mountain phase than on the driving test.
**ducks**
A wise decision to duck, I hear that Ex-PH2 is fast and lethally accurate with a cast iron skillet!
And an angry cat
Mebbys Ex-PH2 will throw him a sammich instead?
[…ducking quickly and scrambling for my steel pot.]
(^__^)
Just as I suspected… you guys are a bunch of pussies.
Whoa, whoa whoa… What are you doing here? Arent you supposed to be in the kitchen?
BAHAHAHA! God I love the DuffelBlog!
Ranger School Women Question Pickle Jar Opening Test
http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/07/ranger-school-women-pickle-jar/
Why do you think Swiss Army knives and Gerber multitools were invented? To wear to the junior prom with a corsage?
If they can pass at male standards, good on ’em. Although – I have to ask – are there from the same group of women that had the ‘special’ 6 month pretraining that the males didn’t get? Or did I (hopefully) misunderstand that. Doesn’t that somewhat compromise the “equal standards” part if they had to have an additional half a year?
Great picture! Seriously determined…..