Standards lowered to produce first female Green Beret

[Peter1469]

Standards lowered to produce first female Green Beret

A SoF officer at the US Special Warfare Center and School at Ft. Bragg wrote an anonymous letter claiming that senior leadership lowered standards to allow a female to graduate selection and then the Q Course. Although, none have as of yet, the letter claims it has allowed marginal male candidates into SoF. As one would imagine, this has caused a $#@! storm in the leadership at the School and the Army.

An Army Green Beret officer has issued a public but anonymous rebuke of senior leaders for weakening America's special forces by lowering training standards due to careerism and push to integrate women into the elite force.

"Our regiment has a cancer, and it is destroying the [Special Forces] legacy, its capability, and its credibility," the officer wrote anonymously in an email widely circulated within the U.S. Special Operations Command.


The officer is based at the Army Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and the email accuses leaders of "moral cowardice" by lowering training standards and weakening the capabilities of special operations commandos.


The email touched off a debate among current and former Special Operations troops.


A spokesman for the Special Operations command referred the Free Beacon to an Army statement on the email.


The critical email is titled "Careerism, Cronyism, and Malfeasance in SWCS: The End of SF Capability" and is addressed to fellow active duty and veteran Green Berets.


It states that the training school "has devolved into a cesspool of toxic, exploitive, biased, and self-serving senior officers who are bolstered by submissive, sycophantic, and just-as-culpable enlisted leaders."


"They have doggedly succeeded in two things; furthering their careers, and ensuring that Special Forces is more prolific, but dangerously less capable than ever before," the officer said. "Shameless and immodest careerism has, in no uncertain terms, effectively destroyed our ability to assess, train, and prepare students, or to identify those students that pose very real risk to operational detachments."


The officer, one of the Green Beret trainers, also accused the Army of lowering standards to pave the way for the first female Green Beret.


"Regardless of one’s opinion on the topic, a universally accepted truth recognized by all parties is that if women yearn to join the force, they should meet the same standards achieved by those men they wish to serve with," the officer said.


Instead current leaders want to lower training standards "enough to ensure that any woman attempting this path will have absolutely no issue achieving it."

Read the entire article at the link.

[jimmyz]

I hope her unit drives her out to early retirement.

[Peter1469]

I hope her unit drives her out to early retirement.

There is no her yet. The article is about the SoF School lowering standards in hopes a female can pass. So far they all get medical exists. Hip fractures from carrying too much crap.

But the article states that too many unqualified males are getting through.

[Ethereal]

SJWS versus SPEC-OPS... this will be interesting.

[Cletus]

When the Army created CMF 18 back in the 80s, some of us thought it was a bad idea. Prior to that, you had a "S" skill identifier attached to your primary MOS. SF was an assignment, not a career. Making it a separate career field and expanding the role of Special Operations meant increasing the size. When you increase the size and mission of a unit, you can't be as selective about who you put in it. You have to have numbers. The way you get the numbers is to lower the qualification standards. For officers, SF was a waypoint. They got qualified, they spent a few years there and then moved back into their original branch. Staying in Group for too long was actually a career killer for an officer because there was no room for advancement. Once it became its own branch, all that changed. It became a place to homestead and unfortunately, conventional officers who went to SF took their conventional thinking with them. The days of commanders like Jack Mackmull were pretty much over.

About the same time, someone came up with what they called the "Ranger 2000" program. The Ranger Department was told they WOULD graduate 2000 Rangers a year. Fortunately, that didn't last long. The graduation rate did go up, but not nearly to the desired level. The Department refused to play that game.

This is also when they tried to put the first female through the Q course. She couldn't handle the physical stress and when Phase 1 Committee was told to pass her through to Phase 2, every instructor on the committee walked into the puzzle palace to request reassignment. That shut that down.

What is going on today is not new, it is just more obvious because of the numbers involved than it was in the past.

[Peter1469]

When the Army created CMF 18 back in the 80s, some of us thought it was a bad idea. Prior to that, you had a "S" skill identifier attached to your primary MOS. SF was an assignment, not a career. Making it a separate career field and expanding the role of Special Operations meant increasing the size. When you increase the size and mission of a unit, you can't be as selective about who you put in it. You have to have numbers. The way you get the numbers is to lower the qualification standards. For officers, SF was a waypoint. They got qualified, they spent a few years there and then moved back into their original branch. Staying in Group for too long was actually a career killer for an officer because there was no room for advancement. Once it became its own branch, all that changed. It became a place to homestead and unfortunately, conventional officers who went to SF took their conventional thinking with them. The days of commanders like Jack Mackmull were pretty much over.

About the same time, someone came up with what they called the "Ranger 2000" program. The Ranger Department was told they WOULD graduate 2000 Rangers a year. Fortunately, that didn't last long. The graduation rate did go up, but not nearly to the desired level. The Department refused to play that game.

This is also when they tried to put the first female through the Q course. She couldn't handle the physical stress and when Phase 1 Committee was told to pass her through to Phase 2, every instructor on the committee walked into the puzzle palace to request reassignment. That shut that down.

What is going on today is not new, it is just more obvious because of the numbers involved than it was in the past.

Lowering standards gets people killed regardless of the reasons you are doing it.

[Cletus]

Lowering standards gets people killed regardless of the reasons you are doing it.

Absolutely.

[Common]

Lower the standards for Police was the beginning of a long decline

The keep wanting us to believe women are the same as men, then why do they have to lower all the standards for everything