Army opens Ranger School to women

[MemberLG]

Do you mean by that that you think "Army leadership" will request an exception and seek to continue the exclusion of females from Infantry and Armor?

No, rather I am just talking about the Ranger school. In order for an unqualified female soldiers to attend, we almost need a conspiracy as to from the unit leadership, RTAC/RASP, then Ranger school. When I was at Ranger school, I wonder how some of my classmates made whatever screening at their units. Just like anything in the Army, there could be blowbacks. When a female soldier fails, who could become the fall guy? Say a female soldier couldn't do 6 pull ups. The Ranger school could simply ask the unit how many pull ups this soldier did during unit screening. Only the politically blinded commander will push unqualified female soldiers to Ranger school. Unless the school house folks are dumb, they know they can shift some blame to back to the units.

 

[HMQ]

Makes me wonder as the current requirement (i.e. "qualified" equals "meeting requirement") for Ranger school (as of today) excludes most female soldiers.

Made me wonder: Let's take the two recent grads. Tabbed, but no IBOLC. Would they give them equivalent IBOLC credit and allow them to insert into an infantry unit, much less put in a packet for the regiment? Or do they hold the line until females work through IBOLC?

Seems like RTAC/Pre-Ranger covers about half of the IBOLC content. Certainly not the same depth even on the items that are common. Or do you do a compressed IBOLC for female 1LTs and CPTs, minus the RS prep and *BOLC stuff common to all branches?

Ranger School is open to all branches, and includes specialists and enlisted who have not attended any of the BOLCs. The fact that the two female graduates did not have IBOLC training is irrelevant. I only know this because my son is an ABOLC grad, now in the Mountain phase of Ranger School, so our family has studied up on the subject

 

[hawk]

Ranger School is open to all branches, and includes specialists and enlisted who have not attended any of the BOLCs. The fact that the two female graduates did not have IBOLC training is irrelevant. I only know this because my son is an ABOLC grad, now in the Mountain phase of Ranger School, so our family has studied up on the subject

Understood. I was referring to what would need to happen to get more senior female officers into infantry if its opened up.

My son reminded me... Just send them to IN Captain's career course.

Congrats on your son's progress, by the way!