Instructors claim first female enlisted to earn Ranger tab actually quit, given special treatment...

I don't believe this BS for a minute. The same thing was said about the other females who graduated. But here is why I don't believe it. Because it would mean that the senior Ranger NCOs and Officers pwho run the course are liars who have sold out their integrity to pass a female. These are the NCOs and officers who have led Rangers in the most difficult battles the Rangers of this generation have faced. IMO they would be the very last people susceptible to political pressure. All of the Rangers I have worked with would have an IDGAF attitude about pressure to pass someone who didnt meet standards. They would never sell out their fellow Rangers that way.

I remember "Ranger Instructor NCOs" were quoted as saying that the CG and CSM of the Infantry School had walked patrols with the female officers and overrode the RI grading and passed them. Then it turned out that the CG and CSM had never even walked a patrol with any of the females, much less graded them. The CG they were accusing of such an integrity breach was a Captain in SFOD-D Pduring the Blackhawk down operation in Somalia. He was a former SFOD-D Commander. If anyone thinks that a person like that would buckle to political pressure and allow someone to earn a Ranger Tab who didn't deserve it has no idea how these type of soldiers think, and how seriously they take their responsibility to the SOF community to uphold the standards.

For those
claims to be true, then dozens of Ranger NCOs and Officers, combat vets who work in the school chain of command, would have to all agreed to sell out their integrity. Sorry, but that just didn't happen

But what is very likely is some butthurt Ranger feels like his tab is somehow diminished because a female could pass the course. In their warped ego driven mind, they feel that to accept that means that Ranger School wasn't as hard as he thought or bragged about, because "a girl" made it through. His bruised sense of manhood cannot do the right thing, which is to congratulate that new Ranger, and recognize that she made it through and met the standards despite not having a natural edge in muscle mass or testosterone.

So quit crying, Ranger. You should, as I do, celebrate the achievement of a remarkable person who faced a tremendous challenge and dug deep and found the mettle to pass. Her accomplishment in no way denigrates your own accomplishments.

Where do they come up with this fake info? She recycled Darby once for patrols, and went through the other two phases without an issue. She's a hard charging NCO, and anyone who knows her would know that she would never quit.

with Fort Benning refusing to comment, I would have to withhold judgment on the veracity of this article.