{"id":60502,"date":"2015-06-22T13:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60502"},"modified":"2015-06-22T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T17:27:07","slug":"women-in-ranger-school-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60502","title":{"rendered":"Women in Ranger School issue…still"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> does another article on the recent failure of 19 women to complete successfully the first phase of Ranger School. If you’re just catching up the issue, 16 of the 19 women made it through the first week, of those eight made through “Ranger Assessment Phase”, but then fell short in the patrolling phase. The Post quote some anonymous fellow as saying that no RI wants to be the first to “pass” a woman. Those eight failed at least two patrols, along with 101 of their male peers. <\/p>\n

Brig. Gen. James E. Rainey, the commandant of the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, disputed that any Ranger instructor maliciously intended to hold female students back.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe women did worse than men at patrolling,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s a fact.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s really not surprising, they had the crap beat out of them worse than they ever had in their lives and then had to function as leaders and followers, alternately. Of course, the social engineers had to get their licks in;<\/p>\n

Ellen Haring, a reserve Army colonel, expressed disbelief that none of the 19 women who originally qualified to try Ranger School has succeeded. She\u2019s a leader of No Exceptions, a campaign organized by the non-partisan Truman Project and Center for National Policy that calls for all jobs in the military to be opened to women who qualify.<\/p>\n

Haring said that the longer that Ranger School is left open to women, the more accepted it will be in the ranks and the more likely it is that a woman will graduate. She questioned how men who do not come from a combat arms background can pass Ranger School after attending a preliminary courses at Fort Benning, but no woman has.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Haring’s name sounds familiar to you, she’s the female colonel who is suing the Army for not giving her the same leadership opportunities as men that we wrote about two years ago<\/a>. Earlier this year, she chastised us<\/a> for busting phonies because she has no valor and so we don’t have valor worth stealing. Last year<\/a>, she complained that the military isn’t killing women at the same rate men are dying.<\/p>\n

I’m all for women graduating from Ranger School as long as they have to meet the current standard. But, the Harings of the world want a graduate now, regardless of the standard, because the politics of the issue are more important than the soldiers. Watering down the standard will only cost lives down the road, but that doesn’t seem to matter to Haring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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