8 women remain in Army Ranger course

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Washington Times:

Of the 19 women who began the first integrated Ranger Course on Sunday, eight have survived the Ranger Assessment Phase and are continuing through one of the Army’s most elite training programs.

 

Four-hundred soldiers arrived at the training at Fort Benning, Ga. – 381 men and 19 women, who had previously passed the Ranger Training Assessment Course. Eight women and 184 men are still participating in the Ranger course, according to a Fort Benning release on Thursday.

 

The overall success rate after the Ranger Assessment Phase, which lasts four days, is 48 percent, officials said. Broken down by gender, that’s a 48.3-percent success rate for men and 42.1 percent for women, both of which are “within historic norms for the Ranger course,” officials said.

 

The first week of the Ranger course begins with a physical fitness test, including 49 pushups, 59 situps, a 5-mile run in under 40 minutes and 6 chin-ups, officials said. Three women and 78 men washed out of the Ranger course on the first day after the physical assessment.