US Army Seeking Volunteers to Attend Ranger School
|I do not have a problem with this as long as the women trainees are treated exactly like how the male trainees have been treated over the years:
The Army is looking for female soldiers who want to volunteer to attend Ranger school.
The call-out is part of the Army’s ongoing effort to determine whether and how to open combat arms military occupational specialties to women.
Senior Army leaders are expected to decide in January if they want to move forward with this one-time, integrated Ranger school assessment. If the assessment moves forward, it likely will take place in the spring, and the Army will need volunteers already in place and ready to go, officials said Friday. [Army Times]
You can read the rest at the link, but the Army claims the women trainees will have to meet the same fitness requirements as the males. However, will the fitness requirements remain the same as they have been? You can see the current fitness requirements here. Before someone says that those fitness requirements are not so bad make sure to also look at the recommended fitness requirements as well on that site. This is because on the physical fitness test the graders mess with you and do not count a lot of pushups, situps, and pullups. So if they did that to a female trainee would they be called sexist by the special interests even though they do the same thing to male trainees?