I spent 14 years in the Army: 9 in Combat Arms (Recon and Infantry) and 5 pushing paper.
I was a Staff Sergeant in C Co., Committee Group, Crew Served Weapons, 104th Division (BCT) an 11B (Infantry) slot. I was a Recon Scout out of Knox and Ft Lewis (1/4 IN and 2/60 Mech)
I commanded a postal detachment that was about 75% female. I supervised/commanded perhaps 70 women in my Admin phase of 5 years.
So, when this bizarre idea that women should be in close combat arms (Infantry/Armor and the like) bubbled to the surface, I knew it spelled disaster.
The Marines did a long-term study which proved conclusively that there were no good outcomes in Infantry units that included women.
We have roughly 3 fake Rangers wondering around with tabs they apparently didn't earn.
And now we have allegedly, roughly 18 women who survived OSUT at Ft. Benning and are now authorized to wear the Blue Rope.
It's made quite the little splash.
But I also knew that like the Ranger School fiasco, the truth would leak out.
And so it has:
In fact, only eighteen of the thirty-two female infantry recruits made it through the One Station Unit Training (OSUT) program at Fort Benning, Georgia.
While the attrition rate doesn’t seem all that alarming, it strikes a more concerning tone when factoring in that the females needed only to meet the much-lower female standards for physical fitness that separate them from their previously all-male counterparts.
That said, there were some women who certainly gave their male colleagues a run for their money.
“There was even one female that did better than 90 percent of the males on the PT test,” said one 22-year-old male trainee, who reportedly had high PT scores. “Speaking as the person who had the second-highest PT score- she had me looking over my soldier the whole cycle. It was something that definitely made me better, and maybe kept me up nights a few times. But certainly by the end of the cycle, I was doing more push-ups, because I had her chasing me.”
However, some sources who graduated from within the unit -whom requested concealed identities to protect their new careers- claimed a clear double-standard between males and females in their training cycle, including lighter rucksacks and lower expectations.
“No way,” one soldier told Popular Military when asked if women were held to the same standards. “Lighter rucks, things like that.”
The females graduated from the 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment last Friday, stepping off Benning’s grounds as the first female junior enlisted infantrymen.
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I was a Staff Sergeant in C Co., Committee Group, Crew Served Weapons, 104th Division (BCT) an 11B (Infantry) slot. I was a Recon Scout out of Knox and Ft Lewis (1/4 IN and 2/60 Mech)
I commanded a postal detachment that was about 75% female. I supervised/commanded perhaps 70 women in my Admin phase of 5 years.
So, when this bizarre idea that women should be in close combat arms (Infantry/Armor and the like) bubbled to the surface, I knew it spelled disaster.
The Marines did a long-term study which proved conclusively that there were no good outcomes in Infantry units that included women.
We have roughly 3 fake Rangers wondering around with tabs they apparently didn't earn.
And now we have allegedly, roughly 18 women who survived OSUT at Ft. Benning and are now authorized to wear the Blue Rope.
It's made quite the little splash.
But I also knew that like the Ranger School fiasco, the truth would leak out.
And so it has:
Nearly half of females failed to graduate Army Infantry training, standards were also lowered
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| (FORT BENNING, Ga.) – U.S. Army Infantry soldiers-in-training assigned to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 198th Infantry Brigade, conduct their ‘Turning Blue Ceremony’ where they put on their distinctive blue cords identifying them as infantrymen May 18, 2017, at Sand Hill’s Pomeroy Field. Names obscured for personnel security. (Photo by Patrick A. Albright, Maneuver Center Photographer) |
America’s first female Army Infantrymen are here, but not all of them made it through.
While the attrition rate doesn’t seem all that alarming, it strikes a more concerning tone when factoring in that the females needed only to meet the much-lower female standards for physical fitness that separate them from their previously all-male counterparts.
That said, there were some women who certainly gave their male colleagues a run for their money.
“There was even one female that did better than 90 percent of the males on the PT test,” said one 22-year-old male trainee, who reportedly had high PT scores. “Speaking as the person who had the second-highest PT score- she had me looking over my soldier the whole cycle. It was something that definitely made me better, and maybe kept me up nights a few times. But certainly by the end of the cycle, I was doing more push-ups, because I had her chasing me.”
However, some sources who graduated from within the unit -whom requested concealed identities to protect their new careers- claimed a clear double-standard between males and females in their training cycle, including lighter rucksacks and lower expectations.
“No way,” one soldier told Popular Military when asked if women were held to the same standards. “Lighter rucks, things like that.”
The females graduated from the 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment last Friday, stepping off Benning’s grounds as the first female junior enlisted infantrymen.
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