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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

First Two Women Soldiers Pass Elite U.S. Army Ranger Course

A female soldier talks with another soldier during the swamp phase of Ranger School at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
A female soldier talks with another soldier during the swamp phase of Ranger School at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

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Alan: Normally I would pay little attention to the news that two women passed the U.S. Army Ranger Course

However, a blog entitled "The Thinking Housewife" (operated by a Traditionalist Catholic) delights in dissing women "who go where no woman has ever gone before." 

This post gives credit where credit is due and in some small way provides antidote to the problematic truth that "mediocre philosophy sells by making the half-literate feel smart."

"The Thinking Housewife and Closeted White Supremacy"

Compendium Of "Pax" Posts On "The Thinking Housewife," Laura Wood


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First two women soldiers pass elite U.S. Army Ranger course

REUTERS, 18/08 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two women have made military history after becoming the first female soldiers to pass the U.S. Army’s grueling Ranger Course, the Army said on Monday.
The two, along with 94 men, passed the 62-day leadership course, which teaches students “how to overcome fatigue, hunger, and stress to lead Soldiers during small unit combat operations,” it said in a statement.
In April, 19 women and 381 men began the first Army Ranger school that included women. The course, based at Fort Benning, Georgia, includes training in woodlands, mountainous terrain and Florida swampland. (https://www.benning.army.mil)
Army Rangers are rapidly deployable troops trained for mountain, desert and swamp terrain and often go after special operations targets.
“Highlights of the course include a physical fitness test consisting of 49 push-ups, 59 sit-ups, a five mile run in 40 minutes, and six chin-ups; a swim test; a land navigation test; a 12-mile foot march in three hours; several obstacle courses; four days of military mountaineering; three parachute jumps; four air assaults on helicopters; multiple rubber boat movements; and 27 days of mock combat patrols,” the statement said.
A graduation ceremony will be held at Fort Benning on Friday. The U.S. military began a process two years ago to open thousands of frontline combat jobs to women. The service branches have been developing gender-neutral requirements for all jobs in the military and evaluating whether to recommend that any remain closed to women.
The Army had faced resistance to allowing women to serve in combat units, but since such experience is a factor in promotions and job advancement in the military, women have had greater difficulty than men in moving up to the top ranks, officials have said.
About 90 percent of senior Army infantry officers qualified as Rangers, which should allow women graduates to better compete with their male counterparts.
Nearly 12 percent of U.S. forces deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan were women. They represented about 2 percent of U.S. military deaths in those wars.
(Reporting by Eric Walsh; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)


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