{"id":61143,"date":"2015-08-01T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61143"},"modified":"2015-07-31T16:39:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T20:39:59","slug":"2-women-ranger-students-advance-to-florida-swamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61143","title":{"rendered":"2 women Ranger students advance to Florida swamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2015\/07\/31\/two-women-pass-mountain-phase-at-ranger-school-now-one-step-short-of-graduation\/\">Washington Post<\/a> reports that two of the three women who attacked the Mountain Phase of Ranger School have advanced to the Swamp Phase in Florida &#8211; the last phase of the school. So to recap;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A third woman who advanced to the Mountain Phase was \u201crecycled\u201d along with 60 men. That means they did not advance, but will be allowed to try the course again and can still graduate later. All three women began the Mountain Phase on July 11 alongside 156 male students who also were attempting it for the first time, and 42 men who already were training in the mountains, but failed to pass there the first time. The phase includes 20 days of climbing, hiking, rappelling and patrolling in the mountains of the Chattahoochee National Forest, mostly with minimal sleep and little food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good for them, I hope they both make through and prove that it is indeed possible for women to graduate at the current standard. But the Army has to decide whether it&#8217;s worth the cost to the force to continue a policy that doesn&#8217;t use the course of instruction to it&#8217;s best effect. 19 women started the course and 2 may complete it. That&#8217;s about 10% who will be successful. The washout rate among men from beginning to the end of the course is less than 50%. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chip and Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that two of the three women who attacked the Mountain Phase of &hellip; <a title=\"2 women Ranger students advance to Florida swamps\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61143\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 women Ranger students advance to Florida swamps<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}