Why Special Ops Should Be Off Limits to Women As first female SEAL trainee reportedly drops out, debate hovers around biology. If you like seeing Americans rescuing other Americans and blowing up bad guys, NBC has the show for you CNNMany of us taking part in the CNN town hall on guns have been touched by someone who chose to do evil. I am sharing my thoughts with you because I. Why Special Ops Should Be Off Limits to Women. In an historic 2. Defense Secretary Ash Carter declared all combat positions would now be open to women. It was not welcome news to everyone, particularly those concerned that the military will be forced to lower standards to accommodate the new gender parity. Included in this view was then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford, a Marine general with several tours of duty in the Iraq War and Afghanistan. At the time of the Carter announcement, Dunford presented an internal Marine Corps study with evidence that women suffered drawbacks not only in the more obvious areas involving strength and stamina, but were more likely to get injured in training and were much less capable of hitting a target. All of which Carter simply pooh poohed as just not definitive, not determinative. Meanwhile, all combat positions mean all, and that includes special operations units. From Internet Movie Firearms Database Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games. And so to international fanfareover 7. Google hits, the public was informed in July that a woman had become the first to try out for the uber rigorous training of the best known special operations unit in the world, the U. S. Navy SEALs. To rather less ado, but according to multiple reliable sources and a report in the veterans webzine Task and Purpose, that woman has already dropped on requestnot during the actual BUDS Basic Underwater DemolitionSEAL course, but a vastly easier, three week pre BUDS selection and conditioning course. The Special Warfare Center will neither confirm nor deny it. Another female officer volunteered for training in the less demanding but still very tough Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewman program, basically todays equivalent of the Swift Boats that plied Vietnamese rivers and coasts. Overall, the attrition rate for SEAL candidates is 7. SWCC, according to the Navy. The drop out was not unexpected for retired SEAL Lt. Commander Andrew Paul. Paul was an assistant platoon commander for Task Unit Bruiser, Seal Team 3, during the bitterly fought Battle of Ramadi in 2. This was the most decorated SEAL Team since Vietnam and included the first SEAL to win the Medal of Honor in Iraq posthumously. I was there as a photojournalist covering the fighting at the time. The SEAL teams are already so effective that arguably theyre the finest fighting force on the planet, Paul told me in an interview, clearly not in favor of opening up the SEALs to women. Why do you want to mess with thatAs commanding General H. Norman Schwarzkopf declared in the 1. Watch Stake Land II Download. Sniper-special-ops-2016.jpg' alt='Sniper: Special Ops Full Movie' title='Sniper: Special Ops Full Movie' />Gulf War, War is not a Nintendo game. The accuracy of support weapons such as aircraft and artillery has improved, but battles are still decided by the grit and competency of the people on the ground. And both actual combat and the experience of combat conditions have actually become more difficult since Vietnam because of one simple factor body armor. Nevertheless, President Barack Obama openedall military positions to women and President Donald Trump, who like Obama never served in the military, supported that position during the election. P-HA0A24T4/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Sniper: Special Ops Full Movie' title='Sniper: Special Ops Full Movie' />Trump specifically included special operations. Both men are wrong. With overall Army and Marine strength shrinking and with special ops now operating in a stunning 1. The American Conservative recently reported, these units are now under enormous pressure as that same article noted. The mission is victory with minimum casualties, not providing equal opportunity between genders, says Paul. But havent women already graduated from special ops schoolsWhile I was stationed at Fort Bragg as a paratrooper in 1. Army Capt. Kathleen Wilder was awarded the most famous headgear in the U. S. military, the Green Beret. The Army said she failed the strenuous guerrilla field exercise, and though she qualified for Special Forces, she was not, at first, in line for the Green Beret. She appealed, saying she was the victim of gender discrimination, that several men who did worse than her on the test graduated with the distinction nonetheless. She won her appeal in 1. No woman since then has ever passed the school. In 2. 01. 5 two women did graduate from Ranger School and two more did so in April of this year. Ranger school may be less rigorous than Navy BUDS, but its still very tough. Watch Priceless Putlocker'>Watch Priceless Putlocker. No woman has completed the Marine Infantry Officer Course, which is considered easier. The last of about 3. So it is curious, then, that four women are now wearing the vaunted Ranger tab and camouflage beret. And one of the first two is 3. So its not particularly shocking to hear that the Army surreptitiously cheated for them. An expose in People magazine in September 2. Congressmans inquiry, found that before the women began the course, an unnamed general told his subordinates A woman will graduate Ranger School. He said, At least one will get through. People cited multiple sources as saying The women were first sent to a special two week training in January to get them ready for the school, although the course didnt start until late April. Once there they were allowed to repeat the program until they passedwhile men were held to a strict passfail standard. They then spent months in a special platoon at Fort Benning getting, among other things, nutritional counseling and full time training with a Ranger. The women were put in a special platoon where among other things they were taken out to the land navigation course. This is a particularly difficult aspect of the course Hint You cant use your cell phone GPS and is timed. Meanwhile the men got no preview. Once in Ranger school they were allowed to repeat key parts such as patrols. Men were not. That congressman, by the way, was Rep. Steve Russell R OK, an Army Lieutenant Colonel and Ranger School graduate. His attempted investigation was thwarted by brass who informed him it appeared part of the records had been destroyed. Given the pressure reportedly put on the Ranger School to pass those women, just how long can the other schools be expected to hold out Nobody within the SEAL community thinks the standards will be maintained, alleges Paul. More than just a Mens Club But could all of this be because of a Mens Club in the militaryIn fairness, American sports remained segregated long after it was apparent that blacks were certainly as qualified as whites athletically. But competition forced the owners hands. No law was required. But here the great discriminator is biology. A 1. 99. 2 Presidential Commission report found that the average female Army recruit is 4. She has only 5. 5 percent of the upper body strength and 7. Moreover, the average 2. Thats important under any circumstances but in the forever war of Afghanistan, high in the mountains, peak strength and endurance means everything. According to the Surgeon Generals office in 2. Army women are more likely to be disabled than men and are approximately 6. Army men to receive a physical disability discharge for a musculoskeletal disorder. Theyre more than five times as likely to suffer stress fractures. Tremendously aggravating this disparity is the now universal use of body armor in combat areasnot just in combat. At Camp Corregidor in Ramadi in 2. The newest armor is lighter but still weighs about 3. Counting all equipment, the Marine Corps puts the average combat load at 8. The healthy weight for a U. S. woman of average size is only 1. A friend of mine lost over an inch in height during his year long tour in Ramadi. Later in Afghanistan body armor, normal load, and extra load that I carried as a photojournalist herniated two of my lumbar disks and ended my days of combat reporting. How are women to handle this burden Train harder No. These people are already pushed to their limits and special ops are pushed beyond. In 2. 01. 2, when the issue wasnt even special ops but just women in combat, Marine Capt. Sniper 2 Video 2. IMDb. Quotes. Pavel is making a reference to Simand, the extraction point as well as a Muslim town that suffered from years of persecution. Muslims lived in this area for 6. The Nazis tried to wipe them out, then the communists and the Serbs. They were called the Modrus. It means invincible. Why do this to themLanguage, religion, property, greed, you choose. Men kill other men and nobody knows why.