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I've seen the Discovery documentary on SFAS, and also read snippets of what it entails, and boy that's one gnarly selection process. The Navy SEALs BUDs training gets a lot of media attention, but the SFAS seems no less arduous.
Even going back to when I was in the best shape of my life, I wouldn't have lasted even 30 minutes in that sand pit.
Two female Army officers will make history when they report to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in their first step toward earning the Special Forces tab and becoming Green Berets.
The female officers, whom Army officials declined to identify, could attend their first Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS) class as early as October, though neither has yet received orders for training at Fort Bragg, The Washington Times has learned.
Col. Nestor A. Sadler, commandant of the Special Forces Regiment at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center School at Fort Bragg, confirmed that the two female candidates had accepted invitations for the SFAS class.
“Two females met the requirements for SFAS and were nominated by the ARSOF [Army Special Operations Forces selection] panel to attend SFAS. One candidate declined her invitation and withdrew from the process. Special Forces Branch asked why. On the last day to accept or decline the invitation, she changed her mind and accepted the invitation to attend SFAS,” Col. Sadler said.
At a recent Special Forces Association conference in Jacksonville, Col. Sadler said that the Army selection panel had reviewed the application packets of seven female officers. Of those, two were approved for the SFAS class, he said.
This is a great idea. What could possibly go wrong with sending women to live behind enemy lines with third world warlords and their backwards minions?
If they can pass it with the same standards that men must meet, that's fine with me.
My GUESS is that they'll eventually change the standards so women will pass.
Sorry, but the strongest woman isn't as strong as the 100,000th strongest man because men and women are biologically different.
Like I said, if they can pass the course as it is, they will earn it. If not, they have no business in these units.
The problem is that you can't change just some of the rules with respect to men and women and expect anything but a cluster-****.
Males are disposable and they always have been.
It's what we expect and what are willing to accept.
It is how males have traditionally proven themselves worthy of a place in society.
This is not true of women.
Women don't have to prove anything or do anything except have a uterus.
We have never branded females unwilling to fight as cowards, as we would with a male, and I don't expect we'll start now.
No society that survived our ancient past did so by making females disposable co-equals with males.
With so much of our development as a species tied up with male disposability, there is no reason to believe women will today accept their own demise when males are available to protect them, regardless of the circumstances.
The problem is that you can't change just some of the rules with respect to men and women and expect anything but a cluster-****.
Males are disposable and they always have been.
It's what we expect and what are willing to accept.
It is how males have traditionally proven themselves worthy of a place in society.
This is not true of women.
Women don't have to prove anything or do anything except have a uterus.
We have never branded females unwilling to fight as cowards, as we would with a male, and I don't expect we'll start now.
No society that survived our ancient past did so by making females disposable co-equals with males.
With so much of our development as a species tied up with male disposability, there is no reason to believe women will today accept their own demise when males are available to protect them, regardless of the circumstances.
2) Will there be another order to "make sure they pass"?
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