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https://dnyuz.com/2020/02/25/first-woman-set-to-pass-special-forces-training-and-join-green-berets/

WASHINGTON — A National Guard soldier is set to become the Army’s first female Green Beret in coming weeks, according to military officials, following the Pentagon’s opening of all combat and Special Operations jobs to women in 2016.

The woman, an enlisted soldier, is in the final stage of training before graduating from the roughly yearlong qualification course, or Q Course, as a Special Forces engineer sergeant. Her graduation is almost guaranteed, officials said, although occasionally soldiers have failed the course this late in the training or withdrawn because of injuries.



A spokesman for Army Special Operations Command would not release any information on the soldier, citing security concerns.

The soldier is one of only a handful of women who have passed the initial 24-day assessment program that acts as a screening process before the qualification course. The weekslong screening regimen tests candidates on fundamental military skills, including land navigation and marching with heavy combat gear before they are evaluated by Special Forces supervisors — and either denied entry or accepted into the qualification course.

At least one other woman, a medical sergeant, also is in the qualification course.

The course’s length depends on the soldier’s military job, which for the Green Berets includes specialties such as intelligence and operations, weapons, medical, engineering and communications. All are front line combat positions, and Green Berets have been central to America’s wars since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

More than 700 female soldiers have been allowed into previously restricted combat jobs out of the roughly 65,000 women in the Army. In 2017, a woman was accepted into the Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment, an elite light infantry unit that operates alongside the Army’s most prestigious commando teams under the Joint Special Operations Command.

More than a dozen women have graduated from the Army’s arduous Ranger school, including Capt. Kristen M. Griest, who became the Army’s first female infantry officer in 2016.

“I do hope that, with our performance in Ranger school, we’ve been able to inform that decision as to what they can expect from women in the military,” Captain Griest said when she graduated in 2015. “We can handle things physically and mentally on the same level as men.”

The Army Special Forces, known colloquially as the Green Berets, is one of the last Army assignments without any women. Used for missions around the world, Green Berets span a continuum of missions from “soft power” — inoculating local children from disease and building rapport with local leaders — to intense combat operations. They are traditionally assigned to unconventional warfare missions, which often means training and equipping friendly local forces and militaries, as well as counterinsurgency operations.

The elite unit, championed by President John F. Kennedy, gained national recognition during the Vietnam War.

Special Forces troops are deployed today in conflict zones such as Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, replacing conventional troops as the backbone for the United States’ long wars by training and then fighting alongside U.S.-backed allied forces in those countries.

Earlier this month, two Special Forces soldiers, Sgt. First Class Javier J. Gutierrez and Sgt. First Class Antonio R. Rodriguez, were killed in eastern Afghanistan when an Afghan soldier turned his weapon on them in what was described as an insider attack.

The post First Woman Set to Pass Special Forces Training and Join Green Berets appeared first on New York Times.


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FIRST WOMAN TO PASS SPECIAL FORCES TRAINING? NEW YORK TIMES GETS IT ALL WRONG

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New York Times writer Thomas Gibbons-Neff first broke yesterday that a National Guard soldier is set to become the Army’s first female Green Beret in the coming weeks. This report set off a frenzy of other news outlets such as Military.com, Army Times, Task and Purpose, and several others piggybacking off the New York Times article.

But this is far from true — the soldier has still a long way to go. And, in fact, there are two female soldiers in the course, sources with intimate knowledge told SOFREP.

The first female candidate is undergoing the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) part of the Special Forces Qualification Course (SFQC). More specifically, she is training to become a Special Forces Engineer Sergeant (18C). Statistically speaking, she does have a good chance of successfully completing SFQC but she still has multiple phases ahead of her (including the unique culminating exercise, Robin Sage).

Gibbons-Neff stated that “the woman, an enlisted soldier, is in the final stage of training before graduating from the roughly yearlong qualification course, or Q Course, as a Special Forces engineer sergeant. Her graduation is almost guaranteed, officials said, although occasionally soldiers have failed the course this late in the training or withdrawn because of injuries.” Gibbons-Neff does keep the names of his sources private, and for a good reason, since his information is not accurate.

Historically, after being selected for training, National Guard soldiers tend to do very well, with an average graduation rate of 80 percent. But it is key to highlight that her graduation is far from guaranteed, and she has yet to come close to the final stages.

SOFREP has learned that the second female candidate was recycled during the new iteration of Small Unit Tactics (SUT). This put her behind schedule.

There are two National Guard Special Forces Groups (19th and 20th) and five Active Duty (1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 10th).

A woman completing Special Forces training would mark a significant milestone for female troops since combat jobs, which were previously open only to men, became available to the women in 2016. Hundreds of female soldiers have since moved into those roles, including several who’ve graduated from the elite Army Ranger School. Nowadays, having women in the Battalions of Special Forces is a common thing; but thus far in a support role.

Should these female candidates graduate, they won’t be the first women to be qualified. Capt. Kathleen Wilder became the first woman to be eligible for the Army’s Special Forces in the 1980s. Captain Wilder, was the first woman to take the Officers Special Forces Course at Fort Bragg and was told just before graduation in August that she had failed a field exercise and could not be a candidate for the elite guerilla warfare team. She filed a complaint of gender discrimination and Brig. Gen. F. Cecil Adams, who investigated it, determined that she had been wrongly denied graduation. No reports were found on whether or not she ever “graduated.”

While we here at SOFREP wish them both the best through their training, they still have many challenges ahead.


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How much can they change the course requirements before it would become public knowledge?

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I wonder how they are gonna grow a beard so they "blend in"?


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Must be an MOS for sandwich and coffee making...


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Originally Posted by jorgeI
Must be an MOS for sandwich and coffee making...



Jorge . . . In the Marines, back in the day, our Vietnam combat vet DI's referred to them as the "crushed ice and whore platoon." grin


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Here are two videos---the first is the best woman freestyle wrestler in the world (Adeline Gray). The second is two-time world champion freestyle wrestler Kyle Dake. Notice the profound difference between the two? Women cannot even begin to compete with men. Testosterone is everything. We have it. They don't. End of story.

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If I was a 6’ tall, 175 lb Green Beret with a good chance of getting injured in action, would I want to depend on another 6’ tall 175 lb Green Beret to get me out, or a 5’4” 120 pounder???


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