All 8 Women Fail Army Ranger School

The Army announced on Friday that all eight women in its elite Ranger School had failed to meet the standards for graduation. 20 women originally entered the school’s first-ever co-ed class this year and eight were allowed to re-take the program. Three of those eight have been given the same chance this time. Some in the Army feel the standards keeping the women out are outdated, however. “Of course women don’t want to change the standard—they don’t want to be accused of lowering it,” Col. Jason Amerine, a Ranger and West Point graduate told the Christian Science Monitor. “And men don’t want to change it either, because it lets us thump our chest.” He added that, as a result, “women will always fight to meet the male standard, even if it’s arbitrary and kind of stupid. I’m often pretty horrified at the adversity they face, while they keep their mouths shut and deal with it.”