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.
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Featured Image – U.S. Army soldiers attending the Special Forces Qualification Course conduct tactical combat skills training at Fort Bragg, N.C. In the Tactical Combat Skills phase of the course, soldiers practice advanced marksmanship, mounted operations and Special Forces common tasks, regardless of their specialty. The U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School conduct the SFQC year-round – DVIDS
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indeed… intel, civic action etc.. people will die unnecessarily in the direct action business if and when women are accepted and the team dynamics will change dramatically. Damned shame!!
Katy was the first. She was also the first female to file a sexual discrimination lawsuit
Yep. You can’t have a group of men doing totally awesome sh*t without a few women in there. Apparently. PC crap.
The politically correct will not be satisfied until they get women in there. They will lower the standards, if necessary. It will end up costing millions of dollars, for various reasons, (which the military does not have to throw away on PC crap) and probably cost lives, as well. Women have been in SOF support roles for some time and have mostly done a darn good job, as I understand it. However, this is very different to actually being SOF.
I am in the same camp as you…Nevertheless, there have been plenty of female Straphangers working with SOF for the last couple of decades, who performed honorably