Posted on Aug 20, 2015
How did these two women become the first to complete Army Ranger School?
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The two women who will graduate Friday from the Army’s Ranger School did not seem particularly destined to break that gender barrier. Both were strong students and gifted athletes, like many others who emerge from high schools across the country every year. But they made their mark on the U.S. military this week by tapping rare levels of determination that intensified over time.
First Lt. Shaye Haver, 25, was a star high school soccer player in Texas, making the varsity team as a freshman. She learned to fly an Apache helicopter like her father. First Lt. Kristen Griest, 26, ran cross-country in Connecticut before applying to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where she would cross paths with Haver for the first time.
Both failed the initial phase of Ranger School but kept trying even as others elected to drop out. On Friday, the two will become the first women to wear the elite Ranger Tab on their uniforms, after exhibiting degrees of perseverance that brought pride to past mentors.
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First Lt. Shaye Haver, 25, was a star high school soccer player in Texas, making the varsity team as a freshman. She learned to fly an Apache helicopter like her father. First Lt. Kristen Griest, 26, ran cross-country in Connecticut before applying to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where she would cross paths with Haver for the first time.
Both failed the initial phase of Ranger School but kept trying even as others elected to drop out. On Friday, the two will become the first women to wear the elite Ranger Tab on their uniforms, after exhibiting degrees of perseverance that brought pride to past mentors.
Read more at ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-did-these-two-women-become-the-first-to-complete-army-rangers-school/2015/08/19/a745c962-46af-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html?hpid=z1
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First women to pass Ranger School 'were given extra training'
Sources claim that back in January,a general vowed that 'a woman will graduate Ranger School', this year and said officials bent the rules to allow female candidates a better chance of success.
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Good job but can we get on with this and get back to hanging bergdahl. Anyone
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LTC (Join to see)
LT Haver, there was a bit on the local news and they said she had graduated from Copperas Cove High School.
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Both of these ladies graduated from West Point and were good athletes. I was a Personal Trainer for a lot of years and was amazed at how some women excelled in Spinning Classes which has now become very popular again at the Supercycle Clubs in NYC & other cities . But not sure these ladies could have passed the Seal's BUDS tests..??? But I could be wrong??
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SSG Todd Lysfjord
I had a SEAL and two Force Recon guys fail my Ranger School. The course doesn't matter but rather the individual engaged in the course.
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Just had two more females graduate. Great Rangers, glad to have gone through with them.
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