{"id":57714,"date":"2015-01-17T10:14:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T15:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57714"},"modified":"2015-01-17T10:30:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T15:30:52","slug":"ranger-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57714","title":{"rendered":"Ranger Women?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Needless to say, I’ve had tons of email about this article<\/a> which reports that women will be attending a girls-only Ranger class. They’ve been allowed to be observer\/controllers for a cycle and now they’re getting their own class of about 60 ladies. More power to them. <\/p>\n

It’s going to be the worst nine weeks of their lives and there’s no guarantee that they’ll get a coveted Ranger assignment. In fact, most men who graduate from the course don’t get the assignment. Ranger School is a touchstone for most infantry officers, regardless of their follow-on assignments. Even Robert Bateman, the least infantryman in the world went to Ranger School. I think I’ve had only one platoon leader who wasn’t Ranger-qualified in Bradley platoons, if I remember correctly.<\/p>\n

So right off the top, women are taking Ranger School slots that would ordinarily go to people who actually need them and will actually apply the skills that they hone in Ranger School on the field of battle. All for a big social experiment. So, that’s not a waste of dwindling dollars for defense, is it?<\/p>\n

Honestly, I have no problem with women going to Ranger School, or serving in combat units or any of the current discussion. I don’t subscribe to the theory that it will effect morale or unit cohesion. I also don’t think that men won’t be able to control their urges. What concerns me, is that t will turn out like everything else the social engineers get their grubby hippie paws on – standards will fall, standards that have been proven in combat for more than two hundred years and that will cost lives needlessly.<\/p>\n

See, I remember back when women were forced out of the service when they got pregnant. The social engineers forced the military to change, and it reached the point in 1991, when my unit deployed to Iraq that an entire ambulance platoon in our support battalion got pregnant and couldn’t deploy – most had abortions on the German economy after we left.<\/p>\n

I had female cadets when I taught ROTC who I’m sure could pass the requirements for Ranger School – they were hard-asses – but they are the exception. The social engineers aren’t going to be pleased when only a hand full of women get their tabs and they’re going to demand changes to the standard. Not that any of the women advocating for those changes will actually go to the course, or lead soldiers in combat themselves so that they know what they’re talking about – it’s all about numbers and shoving their version of equality down society and DoD’s throat. Regardless of the lives that it costs – it’s all for the cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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