Tuesday, September 29, 2015

People Magazine alleges Ranger course "fixed" to graduate first women

People Magazine alleges Ranger course "fixed" to graduate first women | News OK:
"A People Magazine story claims that two women who recently became the first to graduate from the Army's elite and grueling Ranger school received special treatment.
That prompted what Military.com described as a "blistering denial" late Friday from the U.S. Army that the course was “fixed” to allow women to pass and earn the coveted Ranger tab.
In a statement, Brig. Gen. Malcom B. Frost, the Army’s chief of public affairs, said that the People Magazine article charging that Army Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver were given special treatment was “flat-out wrong” and “pure fiction,” Military.com reported.
Earlier this month, Oklahoma congressman Steve Russell raised questions about whether the women received special treatment and requested their performance records.
That prompted a group of women who had graduated from West Point to file a Freedom of Information Act request for Russell's Ranger school file..."

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