Ninety-seven men have graduated and earned the coveted Ranger tab.
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“Carson could definitely be beneficiary of a Trump implosion, but he can’t count on that”.
This is the first year women attended the training after President Barack Obama ordered the military to accept women in combat roles by 2016.
The Pentagon says Ranger School is the Army’s premier Combat Leadership course, teaching students how to overcome fatigue, hunger and stress in small unit combat operations.
The Army calls this a move to “assess female soldier performance” in the Ranger course as part of an ongoing effort dubbed “Soldier 2020”, which was designed to allow the Army’s most qualified solders to serve in any position where they are capable, regardless of their gender.
Griest entered Ranger School as a first lieutenant and has yet to pin on her captain’s bars.
Two women will soon make history when they graduate from Army Ranger school training.
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The services are wrapping up reviews and must make their recommendations to Defense Secretary Ash Carter this fall. In Iraq and Afghanistan, unconventional wars where the enemy wore no uniform and was largely invisible until the shooting began, female soldiers saw plenty of combat. The review was launched to improve the process to select both men and women for the positions while reducing injuries, said Army Lt. Col. Robert Bockholt, a SOCOM spokesman.
A decision will be made by January regarding their future. There is an entirely different set of qualifications to gain entry into the 75th Ranger Regiment, the active unit dispatched on the most sensitive and specialized missions.
We’re not just talking about graduates who stand among the few and the proud.
There are three phases to Ranger school.
Only the Marine Corps appears ready to resist the sweeping changes to gender roles, particularly in its infantry, where there is resentment of the idea from some leaders. “So I applaud them for sticking at it”.
Adm. Jon Greenert, chief of naval operations, said Monday that the Navy is still looking at standards for women possibly serving in the SEALs, which is that service’s special operations community.
Blumenthal said Griest and Haver show that standards do not need to be lowered in order to accomplish that goal.
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These three women met the standards of the Benning Phase and moved on to the Mountain Phase on July 10. “I am not some bitter old mossback, I am a hard-nosed old soldier who wants to have as many soldiers come home alive as we can possibly have after doing the nation’s dirty work”.
