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WASHINGTON (Army News
Service) — The Army announced
Jan. 15 that female Soldiers will be
allowed, for the first time, to attend
the Army’s Ranger Course and possibly earn the coveted Ranger tab.
According to an official Army
statement, the first Ranger Course
open to female Soldiers begins this
spring.
“Secretary of the Army John
McHugh approved the participation of both men and women in the
spring 2015 Ranger Course assessment,” said Army spokesperson
Wayne Hall. “The assessment will
be conducted during Ranger Course
06-15, which is scheduled to begin
on April 20, 2015. The course has
approximately 60 women scheduled
to participate. Those who meet the
standards and graduate from the
course will receive a certificate and
be awarded the Ranger tab.”
According to Monica L. Manganaro, a spokesperson for the Maneuver Center of Excellence’s Airborne
and Ranger Training Brigade, the
2015 “Ranger Course assessment”
is a regular Ranger Course, with
all the same physical requirements. The current Ranger Course
completion standards, to include
prerequisites, phase performance
requirements and graduation standards would not change for the assessment, she said.
Manganaro said the course is
being called an assessment due to
the first-time participation of female Soldiers. Both male and female students will participate in the
assessment.
The Army released an all Army
activities message in September
2014 requesting units forward the
names of female volunteers to attend the spring Ranger Course
assessment. At the time, the decision to include women in a Ranger
Course had not yet been made.
“The response was overwhelmingly positive,” Manganaro said.
“When the Army asked for women who had interest, the interest
outweighed the number of slots
available.”
Some of the women who may
attend that Ranger Course assessment began the 16-day Ranger
Training Assessment Course, run by
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Second Lt. Kelly Derienzo, recent Field Artillery Basic Officer Leaders Course and Fort Sill Pre-Ranger Course
graduate, sits still Jan. 11 while her classmate, 2nd Lt. Brian Sullivan, gives her a short haircut for the Ranger Training Assessment Course at Fort Benning, Ga.
Training Center, Jan. 16. The RTAC
is meant to prepare Soldiers to succeed in the Ranger Course. This is
the first time an RTAC has included
women. Of the 120 slots available for
students in the RTAC, up to 40 are
allotted for women. There are three
additional RTACs scheduled before
the Ranger Course Assessment begins that include female Soldiers.
With an endorsement from their
unit, Soldiers who successfully
complete the RTAC are eligible to
attend the 62-day Ranger Course,
Manganaro said. Historically, she
said, approximately half of those
who enter the Ranger Course will
succeed in earning the Ranger tab.
Not all Soldiers who attend the
Ranger Course are required to attend an RTAC, Manganaro said.
But all female Soldiers who attend
the Ranger Course Assessment
must first attend and successfully
complete an RTAC.
“The RTAC is mandatory for the
women who want to go to Ranger
school,” Manganaro said. “It is
going to re-enforce those Ranger
skills, and familiarize the female
Soldier with the skill sets they may
not have had in other courses they
have gone through.”
Manganaro said the requirement
to attend the RTAC will “level the
playing field,” in the Ranger Course,
allowing women to better familiarize themselves with the skills they
will need to succeed there.
“The RTAC gives them an azimuth on their skill set, on what they
will need to go to Ranger school,”
she said.
Female observers
and a dvisors
For the Ranger Course assessment this spring, the Airborne and
Ranger Training Brigade selected 31 female Soldiers to serve as
observers and advisors. Of those,
there are 11 officers and 20 noncommissioned officers.
The observer/advisors will be
integrated into the Airborne and
Ranger Training Brigade staff during the Ranger Course assessment,
for the purpose of assisting with the
execution of the assessment, and
to help capture “lessons learned”
from both men and women training
together.
The female observer/advisors
underwent a weeklong evaluation in
November 2014, before being selected to move on to a modified Ranger
Instructor training program, meant
to prepare them to work in assigned
areas during the Ranger Course
assessment. Observer/advisors
will also observe two cycles of an
all-male Ranger Course as part of
their preparation for the April 2015
Ranger Course assessment.
Manganaro said that female Soldiers who successfully complete the
April Ranger Course assessment
will earn a certificate of completion
for the course, and will have earned
the privilege of wearing the Ranger
tab on their uniform. However, she
said, those Soldiers will not get the
Ranger skill identifier, nor will they
be able to transition to an MOS that
requires the Ranger skill identifier,
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Mike Sanders, human performance coordinator at the
7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), talks with one
of the Soldiers at the 7th’s Combat Readiness Training
Facility.
EGLIN AFB – At first
glance, the Army’s 7th Special Forces Group’s (Airborne) Combat Readiness
Training Facility doesn’t
look that different from an
ordinary gym.
Racks are filled with
free weights, an elevated
track runs around the perimeter and loud music
pulsates from overhead
speakers.
The purpose of the
CRTF goes beyond your
neighborhood fitness center, however. Working inside the facility is a team
of professionals dedicated
to helping the Army’s elite
special operators perform
at their optimal level –
physically, psychologically
and even spiritually.
“We are performance
coaches,” said Mike Sanders, the facility’s human
performance coordinator.
“We are working with people who are high achievers,
and we help them perform
different tasks at a very
high level.”
Sanders and the staff at
the CRTF promote a program that the Army calls
THOR 3 Human Performance, for Tactical Human
Optimization Rapid Rehabilitation and Recovery.
If you think that sounds
a little futuristic, you’re
right.
“For special operators,
physical and mental performance are linked, and
their fitness is vital to their
success,” Sanders said.
“We take a scientific approach to how we should
train for certain tasks.”
Sanders explained that
the ability to meet punishing physical demands becomes a central part of a
special operator’s psyche.
When he is unable to perform at that same level
due to injury, it can have a
devastating effect on mental health.
“You see a marked improvement in their well-being when they are able to
perform certain physical
tasks again,” he said.
In addition to helping
the 7th Group’s soldiers
maintain their physical
strength, the team of professionals at the CRTF
work together to help
injured soldiers return
to the battlefield when
possible. Along with performance coaches like
Sanders, the staff includes
mental health professionals and doctorate level
physical therapists like
Capt. Shay Rogers.
“We see wounded warriors as well as soldiers
who have gotten hurt on
the job or in the gym,”
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Rogers and her team apart
is their caseload. While
an average physical
therapy clinic in a regular Army unit might see
15 patients a day, Rogers
normally sees around 22 in
a six hour period, without
the benefit of clerical support staff.
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here,” she said. “Our patients run on a very unusual schedule, and we try
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The move to assess female Soldier performance
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Army’s best-qualified Soldiers the opportunity to
serve in any position where
they are capable of performing to standard.
“In 2011, the Army began assessing barriers to
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Col. Linda K. Sheimo, chief,
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Soldiers complete Scuba re-certification
Friday, January 30, 2015 | THE RED 7 | Page Capt. Thomas Cieslak | U.S. Army photos
Soldiers execute an emergency descent.
Capt. Thomas Cieslak | U.S. Army
Soldiers ascend to the pool surface.
A Special Forces Soldier assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) dons a
rebreather system during Scuba re-certification training at the Eglin Air Force Base East
Gate Pool on Jan. 20. The training refreshed the Green Beret’s skills at underwater operations while preparing them for future missions.
A Special Forces Soldier assigned to the 7th
Special Forces Group
(Airborne) conducts a
safety check on a fellow soldier’s rebreather
system.
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A Soldier places his rebreather mouthpiece back into his
mouth after conducting an emergency descent.
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A Special Forces Soldier assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (right) brings a fellow diver in to the surface in a simulated rescue of a distressed diver during a Scuba re-certification training session Jan.
20. The training refreshed the Green Beret’s skills at underwater operations while preparing them for future missions.
Soldiers practice emergency breathing procedures at the
bottom of the pool. The procedures required one Soldier
to aid the other by holding his breath while providing the
distressed soldier his oxygen supply.
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Under current privatization deals, housing
managers are required
to provide renters’ insurance to military tenants.
Under new contracts, renters will have to purchase
their own. Some might find
they already have such
coverage through USAA
or other insurers that are
popular with the military.
If they don’t, families will
be encouraged to buy their
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but it will be their personal
choice.
The Obama administration’s defense budget for
fiscal 2016 is expected to
seek another one percent
dampening of BAH next
January and again in 2017.
If Congress agrees, BAH
would cover only 97 percent
of rental costs.
Military housing officials
have more in mind than
fairness-for-all-BAH recipients in requiring tenants
on base to pay some rent
out of pocket as BAH rates
are curbed. Those rent payments not only covers fees
promised by contract to
housing managers, but part
of those dollars supports
local “recapitalization” accounts to repair and maintain base housing units.
The housing official explained that about one third
of privatized units, mostly
those in high-rent areas like
California and Hawaii, have
robust recapitalization accounts because BAH there
is relatively high. Another
third of base housing have
adequate maintenance and
repair dollars.
But the final third of
privatization housing inventories are in rural areas,
mostly on or near Army and
Air Force bases. Their re-
capitalization accounts are
barely sufficient to keeping
housing in good condition.
These bases could begin
to see housing deteriorate
if cash flows from renters
are allowed to fall by three
percent, after inflation, over
the next three years.
“As far as we’re concerned it’s an equity issue,”
the official said. “But it’s
also a maintaining-qualityof-housing issue. And if you
put those two together, it’s
just obvious that’s what we
should do.”
DoD and service officials discussed for 18
months how rents on base
should be handled if Congress agreed to a plan to
curb BAH rates. The services had a different worry
in 1997 when they began
signing privatization deals
with developers on the
understanding that rents
collected would equal BAH.
At that time, BAH covered
only 80 to 85 percent of
average rental costs on the
economy. Some developers soon struggled to avoid
default.
In 1999, then-Defense
Secretary William Cohen
won a pledge from Congress gradually to raise
BAH until rates covered
100 percent of average
rental costs off base. The
big worry for privatization
deals shifted to windfall
profits. That’s when the
services began restructuring deals so a portion of
rental streams went into
recapitalization accounts,
which are jointly managed
by local military housing
officials to ensure housing
quality is sustained.
The big worry now
might be getting renters on
base to understand.
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others, admission is $3 for
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and above. Menu includes
chicken jambalaya, crawfish
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will feature activities for kids
with giveaways and a kid’s
menu. ITT and Dell will be
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evening for Eglin club members who are reminded to
pick up their February club
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Everyone with base access Service Center is located in
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will bear the same burden,”
said the official.
A BAH rate protection
rule ensures that families
living off base they won’t
see a drop in allowances
unless they move to new
assignments or have to
change residences. That
same rule protects those already residing on base. As
long as they stay in current
base housing, they won’t
have to pay rent in excess
of monthly BAH.
Sometime soon, however, Army, Air Force, Marine
Corps and Navy housing
officials will give notice
that members moving into
privatized housing will have
to pay rent equal to BAH
plus one percent. That will
match the one-percent
absorption rate designed
into 2015 BAH rates, and
already being felt by new
occupants of housing on the
local economy.
The out-of-pocket
cost, the housing expert
explained, is “not hard
to figure out because the
absorption is the same for
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trimmed in two ways: by
setting rates to cover only
99 percent, not 100 percent,
of average rental costs for
members’ pay grade and
assignment area; also by
no longer including in BAH
added dollars to cover the
expense of renter’s insurance in case personal property is damaged or stolen.
Both changes are
reflected in BAH rates
published Jan. 1. And as
military renters moving
into housing on the economy feel the effect of slightly
dampened allowances, so
too will families moving into
privatized base housing,
the Defense official said. He
declined to be named so he
could speak more frankly
about privatized housing
and new BAH changes.
“The basic premise is
that whatever is happening to everybody in town,
whatever added burden
they’re bearing whether
it’s one percent [of average
rental costs] out of pocket
or absent renter’s insurance, then people on base
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side housing the
military
still owns
are historic general officer
quarters
and small
clusters
of homes
at small,
remote bases where no private partners could be enticed to cut takeover deals.
Families electing to live
in privatized base units sign
rental contracts that, until
this year, had one unique
feature: rents always
matched their monthly
BAH. Those who agree to
pay using payroll allotment
avoid a security deposit.
Other occupants must write
monthly checks or arrange
electronic transfers to the
housing management company just like families have
to do renting on the local
economy.
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Families living in privatized military housing units
will not escape the impact
of moves Congress made
last month to dampen the
value of Basic Allowance
for Housing (BAH), says a
Defense Department housing expert who is coordinating with service branches
to implement the changes.
The result will be that
families moving into privatized base housing will
begin to pay rent that is
one-percent higher than
their monthly BAH, and
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• Available for pick up or online now.
ABOUT THE BOOK: The Northwest Florida Daily News is proud to present the hardbound, coffee table book, “Okaloosa County Memories.” We have worked with area
libraries, archives, historical partners and you, our readers, to produce this unique,
heirloom-quality book capturing 100 years of our county’s history in photographs. Order
your commemorative book now at $44.95 (plus tax/shipping) while supplies last. Pick
up your copy at one of the locations listed below or order online today!
Hurry, this book is in limited supply! Order one of two ways:
Pick up your copies at one of these locations:
• NW Florida Daily News - 2 Eglin Parkway NE, Fort Walton Beach
• The Destin Log - 35008 Emerald Coast Pkwy Suite 501, Destin
• Crestview News Bulletin - 638 N. Ferdon Blvd, Crestview
Have your books shipped by ordering online at
OkaloosaCo.PictorialBook.com
Free shipping available for online orders of two or more copies
Pre-orders for pick up are available now
PRESENTED BY
GOLD SPONSORS
SILVER SPONSORS
City of Fort Walton Beach
Destin Fishing Rodeo
Dr. Dennis Lichorwic
Fort Walton Beach Medical Center
Joe & Eddies Restaurant
Magnolia Grill
Okaloosa Board of County Commission
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