I, too, say that as long as they can do the job, TO THE SAME STANDARD, they probably shouldn’t be excluded.
However, I will lay money on this: within a few years we will be hearing about how there’s not enough “diversity†in the SpecOps ranks, so we need to lower the standards to “fix thisâ€
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@Axeslinger It was said back when Bubba was President. I was working at Bragg as an advisor/role player to SFTG
when a female Captain "with political connections" got a slot in SFTG. She flunked out in Phase 1 IIRC,and DA raised a stink with the SFTG command and insisted they pass her. The end result was at least one Colonel and a CSM were forced into early retirement for refusing to give her a pass.
With the bunch of ass-kissing clerks we have on the JCS now,it won't be long before blind paraplegic's
are given berets as "participation trophies".
I PERSONALLY know of one black Captain that was a West Point AND Ranger school graduate that was caught sleeping on outpost duty during Robin Sage,and had his machine gun,his rucksack,and his classified radio stolen while he was snoozing inside his sleeping bag. He woke up that morning and all he had was the handset in his hand. I know this to be a fact because I am the one that stole it all while he was sleeping.
I reported him to SWC,and in the morning they sent out a LTC to interview him,and they ended up taking him back to Bragg. I figured that was it for him,and he would be back in the 82nd by days end,but found out later they re-cycled him and sent him to a special "all black class and cadre" near Lumberton to repeat the exercise,and let him "graduate" and go to a group after graduation.
I shit you not.
The ONLY "sin" bigger than falling asleep on outpost duty in a war zone,even an assimilated war zone,is outright treason,yet they graduated this goober and gave him a beret.
No,I don't have any idea who he was related to. Pleasant guy to talk to,very articulate and personable,but if you can't be trusted on something as basic as staying awake on guard duty,how the hell can you be trusted with anything else?