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9 years 7 months ago #44796 by OleCowboy
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Only 3 women fail Ranger School PT test, 16 remain

Three women and 78 men have washed out of Ranger School after Monday morning's physical fitness test.

Monday was the first day of a one-time integrated assessment at the Army's famously punishing Ranger School.

The assessment is part of a wider effort to determine whether and how to open combat arms jobs to women, and it is a first for Ranger School, which until now was open only to men.

On Monday morning, 399 soldiers began the course, said Gary Jones, a spokesman for Fort Benning, Georgia, where the first phase of Ranger School takes place.

Of those soldiers, 19 were women.

A total of 81 soldiers did not pass the PT test— 78 were men, three were women.

That leaves 16 female soldiers still in training, Jones said.

The two-month Ranger School begins with the Ranger Physical Assessment. Students must do 49 pushups in two minutes, 59 situps in two minutes, complete a five-mile run in 40 minutes or less, and do six chin-ups.

In fiscal 2014, PT test failures made up the largest number of Ranger School failures.

On average, about 45 percent of Ranger School students will graduate. As many as 60 percent of all Ranger School failures will occur in the first four days during the Ranger Assessment Phase, commonly known as RAP week.

www.armytimes.com/story/military/careers...ol-pt-test/26088039/


The Marines did not grad a single one from their RECON school, they did not lower the standards like the Army does...

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9 years 7 months ago #44801 by jtallen83
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I have no doubt the PC police will make sure a women is tabbed soon.
Will we lower the battalion standards to accommodate them??????
Just as well deactivate them then.
Big difference between a Ranger tab and a battalion scroll.......... :twocents:

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9 years 7 months ago #44804 by OleCowboy
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You are so right. I saw standards lowered for 'certain' groups time after time, especially when we had EIB training, made me sick to my gut...as I was the 4-duce Plt Ldr I was out on the range with my guys so I did not have to be a EIB grader.

Women today, gays, lesbians and transgenders tomorrow, its the Army PC way.

Just be glad you are no longer there...

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9 years 7 months ago #44837 by jtallen83
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8 women left after week one;

www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/24...-army-ranger-course/

This article cracked me up;


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www.duffelblog.com/2014/03/female-army-ranger/

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9 years 7 months ago #44841 by Rex
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SFQC is next I guess..

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9 years 7 months ago #44844 by jtallen83
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I might be convinced that women could play a role in an SF unit, the skill sets are a bit more varied there with all the political stuff they deal with on the ground. The Rangers???? I just can't see it working well there with the present mission they have. Tab wearers maybe but not tab bearers.......

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9 years 7 months ago #44845 by Rex
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I can't see a place for them.. except for where they already are.. support.

Teams don't need that kind of drama.

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9 years 7 months ago #44847 by jtallen83
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It's to bad the present PC society we live in is more interested in what they need from the troops rather than what the troops need from them.......

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9 years 7 months ago #44851 by Libertarian623
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We will see what happens in the road march.

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9 years 7 months ago #44855 by jtallen83
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Yep, only 50 + more days of ass kicking physical and mental tasks with minimal sleep and food. If the gals are lucky the stress will shut down their "cycles",
and give them all a little break. :whistle:
One thing about ranger training that has stuck in my mind was the mental aspect of being VERY hungry all the time, I'll always remember two friends pounding the crap out of each other over welshed bet on a tiny can of C-rat peaches,
their noses never looked the same again. :blink:

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