Posted on Jun 11, 2022
Have the women with combat jobs in the Rangers and Special Forces actually been fighting along side men?
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Have the women with combat jobs and have made it to the Ranger Regiment and Special Forces actually been fighting along side men, or have they been just for show?
Posted 3 y ago
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I think females are just as capable of being warriors as males. Maybe not as physically strong for some tasks, but just as fierce as anyone in a fight. Females have been fighting along side males for centuries. Other countries have plenty of females in their combat arms ranks.
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TSgt James Sutton
so you believe, HONESTLY believe that females can carry a 60 lb rucksack like a male can and be equally combat ready after a days hike and be able to fight the enemy? You really believe that?
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LtCol Bruce Janis
TSgt James Sutton - More importantly, carry your butt out of danger when it hit the fan? We tend to forget about that part.
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I'm going to go ahead and say yes. Six of my female battles were attached to either Civil Affairs or PSYOPS and one of them was borrowed by 2nd Marine Division to replace a corpsman who had a real-world emergency. All six of them had to shoot, move, and communicate while doing their jobs. So yes.
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It is interesting that so much publicity came out when female soldiers were allowed to join special forces and the outcry of the public not that long ago.....Female soldiers have been serving in combat roles for a long time. Some of the best soldier I served beside have been female. They were serving in combat roles long before they were allowed to try for special forces in the MP Corp for as long as I can remember.
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LtCol Bruce Janis
Nothing against MPs I spent 7 years as a PMO. However, we are talking about grunt work. You know, shi..ing in the woods, with men around. Not being on your period, because the enemy can smell you. Keeping up with males on a long, forced march…etc.
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Lots of BS, but no one has answered the question - are there any confirmed cases of the graduates of these schools actually fulfilling combat billets?
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If there are no woman on the Super Bowl teams during the Super Bowl that should tell you something. If you lose in the Super Bowl you are still alive the next weekend. Kind of puts all that propaganda in it's place.
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Opening those jobs to women is just an administrative step. Women going on missions with our special operations forces has been going on for many years. They may not have had the MOS but they were cross trained or trained up for doing certain missions. When an SF Mike team goes into a village, they will take female soldiers to work with the local women. Our SEAL teams in Iraq as part of their protection detail for the Iraqi govt utilized our females to do security checks on females coming into Iraqi govt venues & facilities. And yes, females have gotten trigger time, been wounded, & even killed on these missions. They have been performing with respect & dignity for several decades.
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Yes! I have friends who were members of the cultural support team (CST), who served with the Rangers in their units in Afghanistan! They carry the same load, the same weapons, fought beside them, and when they took over a town searching for insurgence it was the CST’s who were assigned, with an interpreter, to get information from the women and children of the village. They had to go through pretty tough training, and if you want to read a book that is first-hand about a few of these women, the book is called, Ashley’s War.
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https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/23019289
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldi…
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They are just as much for show as the countless other MOS that are part of the Ranger Regiment and do not see Combat. That is to say, they are NOT for show.
And if you took the time to do some research instead of typing this garbage, you would see that YES, there currently are female 75th Regiment Rangers leading Rangers in Combat Operations (CPT Coss) and at least one Green Beret in an ODA in the 10th SOG.
And if you took the time to do some research instead of typing this garbage, you would see that YES, there currently are female 75th Regiment Rangers leading Rangers in Combat Operations (CPT Coss) and at least one Green Beret in an ODA in the 10th SOG.
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TSgt James Sutton
please post a source, otherwise your response is the garbage....I mean you complain that a simple search will uncover this...but yet fail to provide one yourself
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To actually answer your question from 4 months ago as I read it , "have any female Soldiers been awarded the combat MOS(s) severed along side male Soldiers with the same MOS in combat units ? " While I have been out for some time I have visited my old unit as recently as June of this year. While a pretty good size sampling of female Soldiers have been awarded combat MOS(s) the ones that had that MOS in my old unit were assigned to the head quarters and not in the infantry squads or teams. So seeing a fully integrated infantry squad doing Infantry stuff appears to be a goal for teh future. Keeping in mind this is all second hand info and your milage may vary. When you cut through the MACHO and virtue signaling BS you tend to see the ground truth. I will await to see if everything becomes equal to include the draft before I settle for a fair answer.
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SFC Lynn Santosuosso
I am just disappointed that was I was born too early because I would be right in there with any infantry unit!
It’s funny how people in the US tend to bark at women being in combat arms or being in country positions while other countries have been doing that for years!
I posted a reply regarding women in combat and the special group of women in Afghanistan, known as CST’s were embedded with special ops units, and went on operations with them to capture towns looking for insurgence. There is a book about these women. It is called Ashley’s War.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/23019289
It’s funny how people in the US tend to bark at women being in combat arms or being in country positions while other countries have been doing that for years!
I posted a reply regarding women in combat and the special group of women in Afghanistan, known as CST’s were embedded with special ops units, and went on operations with them to capture towns looking for insurgence. There is a book about these women. It is called Ashley’s War.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/23019289
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldi…
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Dr…
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SFC Lynn Santosuosso
I have friends who work in these positions, and I tell you what, you would not want to meet them in an alley on a dark, rainy night!
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Should be easy to find out. Just ask a Green Beanie or a former engagement team member. Either they (WACs) went for cover or they started banging away.
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MAJ Ronnie Reams
Sgt Osla McKercher - Bang away. They have firearms, I presume, and can spray and pray.
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