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Women as Army Rangers and Navy Seals by 2016

Started by jimmy olsen, June 18, 2013, 01:28:27 AM

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Siege

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on June 24, 2013, 06:55:25 PM
Quote from: Siege on June 24, 2013, 02:09:12 PM
3- Security element. These are the guys locking out the outside, covering enemy avenues of approach, in case the enemy decides to reinforce an ongoing engagement.

What if there is an ambush, or the enemy reinforces from an unexpected direction in force.
Those people could be in a nasty situation.

Yeah, the security element gets to shoot from time to time, but is rare.
That's why infantrymen always want to be with the assault element.
That's where shit goes down.

By the way, she mentions both mounted and dismounted missions.
For what I've seen, SF always go dismounted.
They fly and do an air insertion, then walk to the OBJ.

They never right in vehicles because of the IEDs.
The enemy uses IEDs as an early warning system. When they go off they know we are in the area moving to contact.
That's why SF always fly, so they have and maintain the element of surprise.


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jimmy olsen

Three women just passed the Marine Infantry Training course. Given the wash out rate seems like they've kept up their standards.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/11/women_are_passing_the_marine_infantry_training_course_get_over_it.html

QuoteIn September, 114 women graduated from the Marine boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. At every stage, their numbers dwindled. Forty-two passed the physical requirements for training. Nineteen volunteered to do it. Fifteen followed through. Seven made it through the first month. Four completed the course. Three graduated.
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Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 03:27:48 AM
Three women just passed the Marine Infantry Training course. Given the wash out rate seems like they've kept up their standards.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/11/women_are_passing_the_marine_infantry_training_course_get_over_it.html

QuoteIn September, 114 women graduated from the Marine boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. At every stage, their numbers dwindled. Forty-two passed the physical requirements for training. Nineteen volunteered to do it. Fifteen followed through. Seven made it through the first month. Four completed the course. Three graduated.

Awesome attrition rate they got there. Something they should be proud of. Now those three will realize that the real work has just begun. My bet is none will last their entire enlistment as a grunt.
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"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

11B4V

Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 03:27:48 AM
Three women just passed the Marine Infantry Training course. Given the wash out rate seems like they've kept up their standards.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/11/women_are_passing_the_marine_infantry_training_course_get_over_it.html

QuoteIn September, 114 women graduated from the Marine boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. At every stage, their numbers dwindled. Forty-two passed the physical requirements for training. Nineteen volunteered to do it. Fifteen followed through. Seven made it through the first month. Four completed the course. Three graduated.

QuoteThe next, more strenuous challenge is the Marine Infantry Officer Course. So far, 10 women have attempted it. Only one passed the hardest part, the Combat Endurance Test, and a stress fracture later forced her out.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

The Minsky Moment

What is required for graduation other than completing the course?  I.e. how did the numbers go 4-->3?
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mongers

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 22, 2013, 02:17:43 PM
What is required for graduation other than completing the course?  I.e. how did the numbers go 4-->3?

Maybe they couldn't find the matriculation papers, which were in a locked filling cabinet in a disused toilet, at the end of darken corridor reached by long flight of unlit stairs* ?






* Yes it's an incorrect quote, but can't be arse to google it into shape, all for the sake of a rather weak internet 'joke'.   :rolleyes:

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mongers, did you used to take a lot of psychedelic drugs?  :hmm:

mongers

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Queequeg

Quote from: derspiess on November 22, 2013, 02:26:22 PM
I bet one got pregnant.
Wouldn't your period stop under the stress and constant physical exhaustion? 
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Quote from: Queequeg on November 23, 2013, 01:30:16 AM
Wouldn't your period stop under the stress and constant physical exhaustion?
That's what Todd Akin thought.
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