[Fred on Everything] The military, once again, puts women into jobs the cannot do--this time, the Army's Rangers--to advance the careers of political generals--among others, Maj Gen. Scott Miller, who oversees Ranger School. Or what used to be Ranger School.Writes Susan Keating in People magazine: "A woman will graduate Ranger School," a general told shocked subordinates this year while preparing for the first females to attend a "gender integrated assessment" of the grueling combat leadership course starting April 20, sources tell People. "At least one will get through."
And two did, by being given special treatment. Again, a general's career takes precedence over the good of his troops. An old story.
The Army cheated, says Keating: lowered standards to be politically correct and keep feminists happy. This, as the Army knows, and everyone who has been in combat knows, as well as most people who have been in the field military, is a terrible idea. But the Army exists to keep feminists happy. The services are in the hands of what Dave Hackworth, whom I knew before his death, called the Perfumed Princes. These are peace-time officers more interested in their own advancement than in their troops. Being politicians, not soldiers, they are afraid of women. They allow the feminists to make fools of their men: