The women have not been identified by the Army, but both are officers in their 20s and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Army officials said. The female graduates started Ranger School on April 20 alongside 380 men and 17 other female soldiers in the first class to ever include women. The female soldiers were allowed into Ranger School as part of the Army\u2019s ongoing assessment of how to better integrate women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I offer my congratulations. Having worked with women in the Army as a TAC NCO at ROTC Advanced Camp, I knew that there are women out there tough enough and driven to successfully complete anything that the Army can throw at them. So, this illustrates well that the standards are attainable for women, the standards aren’t skewed against women, so the Army doesn’t need to change the standard. <\/p>\n
However, the Army needs to ask itself if this experiment was worth the time and money, if it’s worth putting up 19 candidates to get two graduates. The Washington Post seems upset that those two graduates can’t serve in the Ranger Battalions, but I’m not sure that they would want to live that life everyday for the next several years. The Army spent a year gathering up twenty candidates and preparing them for this nine weeks of training, I can only imagine how difficult it would be to attract women to the Ranger lifestyle.<\/p>\n
I’m sure there are a few, but is it really worth the time and money to just check a box on a slide at the Pentagon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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