Fort Benning, GA – Army Pilot, Military Cop Are 1st Women To Pass Ranger School

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    In this photo taken on Aug. 4, 2015, a female Army Ranger crosses the Yellow River on a rope bridge during Ranger School at Camp Rudder on Eglin Air Force Base, in Fla.  According to the Northwest Florida Daily News, she and one other female were the first to complete Ranger training and earn their Ranger tab this week. (Nick Tomecek/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP) Fort Benning, GA – A 26-year-old military police officer from Connecticut is among the first women to complete the Army’s elite Ranger School.

    A defense official confirmed Wednesday to The Associated Press that Capt. Kristen Griest, who has served in Afghanistan and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, is scheduled to graduate Friday from Ranger School at Fort Benning, Georgia. The official was not authorized to disclose the name publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

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    Griest of Orange, Connecticut, will graduate alongside 25-year-old 1st Lt. Shaye Haver of Copperas Cove, Texas. Haver’s father confirmed that his daughter, an Apache helicopter pilot and West Point graduate, also finished the Ranger course.

    The Griest and Haver families issued a joint statement Wednesday saying the women “are just like all the soldiers in Class 8-15 – happy, relieved, and ready for some good food and sleep.”
    In this photo taken on April 19, 2015, one of the 20 female soldiers, top left, who is among the 400 students who qualified to begin Ranger School, does lunges in between obstacles on the Darby Queen, one of the toughest obstacle courses in U.S. Army training, at Fort Benning, Ga. Two women have passed the Army’s grueling Ranger test, but tougher and more dangerous jobs could lie ahead, senior officials told The Associated Press. The military services are poised to allow women to serve in most front-line combat jobs, including as special operations forces.  (Robin Trimarchi/Ledger-Enquirer via AP)

    In this photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, a female Ranger student shares a laugh with fellow soldiers while waiting for a C-130 ride, ahead of an airborne parachute jump, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.  Two women have now passed the U.S. Army's grueling Ranger test, and even tougher and more dangerous jobs could lie ahead. The military services are poised to allow women to serve in most front-line combat jobs, including special operations forces, senior officials told The Associated Press.  (Dan Lamothe/The Washington Post via AP)

    In this photo taken on April 19, 2015, one of the 20 female soldiers, center, who is among the 400 students who qualified to start Ranger School, runs in place in between obstacles on the Darby Queen, one of the toughest obstacle courses in U.S. Army training, at Fort Benning, in Ga. Two women have passed the Army’s grueling Ranger test, but tougher and more dangerous jobs could lie ahead, senior officials told The Associated Press. The military services are poised to allow women to serve in most front-line combat jobs, including as special operations forces. (Robin Trimarchi/Ledger-Enquirer via AP)


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    truthbearer
    truthbearer
    8 years ago

    Is it so necessary to allow these few iconoclastic women to do what they want at the risk of undermining the morale of the entire army? American men like to feel a sense of machismo when they are serving in the military and the presence of even a few women undermine it. Obviously there are small thinkers at the Pentagong who think that technological superiority is the whole thing. I dont wonder how fast these women will succumb if they are ever in hand to hand combat on the front lines. And if the male soldiers naturally feel protective of them it could make an entire military unit that much more vulnerable. What was wrong with just permitting them to serve as combat pilots and snipers? In this case, less is definitely more.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    8 years ago

    29 years old? I failed that course at 25! Good for them!