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.
Read the entire article at the link.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."