Originally Posted by
juliet
Currently happening within the Green Berets in the US. Long term push to include women, standards lowered prior to actually formally accepting women for training. By the time they are able to start training standards allow them to pass a course that they wouldn’t have a few years before.
Having read the original article/email that perhaps prompted that comment, I'd suggest that actually, the drive down in standards is not specifically about women, but instead about Senior Officers and Senior NCOs looking good and recruiting lots of new 'operators'.
If it were solely about dropping the standards for women, then they'd be maintaining the (new) line with the men currently going through training. They're not - they're allowing the A-Teams to be stuffed with men who can't make the grade. If you had a particularly odd bent of mind, you might say they are doing this to prepare the teams for women, but the easier (and simpler) explanation is that this is about trying to mass produce SF.
The email can be found at
https://sofrep.com/94786/careerism-c...es-capability/
and it's opening paragraph is
SWCS has devolved into a cesspool of toxic, exploitive, biased and self-serving senior Officers who are bolstered by submissive, sycophantic, and just-as-culpable enlisted leaders. They have doggedly succeeded in two things; furthering their careers, and ensuring that Special Forces more prolific, but dangerously less capable than ever before. Shameless and immodest careerism has, in no uncertain terms, effectively destroyed our ability to assess, train, and prepare students, or to identify those students that pose very real risk to Operational Detachments. I cannot stress how systematic and severe the effects on the force will be if the standards, recently implemented here in the Special Forces Qualification Course, remain in place.