 Two female soldiers have completed the Army's Ranger School, a grueling test of mind and body. Only the toughest survive. David Martin now with the Women Who Made History. This is a little of what it took for Captain Chris Grice to become one of the first two women to make it through Ranger School. First Lieutenant Shay Haver is the other to survive the 62-day course, which subjects soldiers to nearly constant physical and mental stress on little food and less sleep. Ranger School is the make or break proving ground for the Army's combat leaders, and it breaks more than it makes. Nineteen women started the course, only Gries and Haver made it to the end. Three hundred eighty men started, only ninety-four finished. The Army refused to officially identify either woman in part to shield them from snarky comments, which began popping up on social media. Some don't bear repeating, but cracks like what standards were lowered, did they only have to do one pull up, were typical. Despite the Army's attempt to protect the two West Point graduates from publicity, their friends could not help bragging on them. The Army insists the women had to meet the same standards as the men, and in the brief glimpses the media was allowed of the training, there was no sign of going easier on females. When they graduate on Friday, both men and women will receive the coveted Ranger tab. But unlike the men, Gries and Haver will still not be eligible to serve in elite Ranger regiments or other ground combat units. That might not make any difference to Haver, who was already an Apache helicopter pilot. Gries belongs to a military police unit. The debate over women in combat is not over yet, but these two young women have broken one of the toughest gender barriers in the military, and it seems only a matter of time before the remaining barriers come down. Terence Poppe here, going to answer a question that I've received many times. In regards to Ranger school, and all of these women that have graduated from the course, I'm just going to be honest. Ranger school, for me, was the hardest school I had ever attended in my life, in regards to grueling. Back when I did Ranger school, somewhere in early 1990, you could find me on my picture, if you go down to the lower right, on the concentration camp victim. And I went from 168 pounds, I was shredded, probably had 5% body fat, to 136, and just f***ing wrecked. I was an alpha company all the way through, and those guys were sadists, and they just went way beyond any reasonable standard that should have been followed, for there to be any any quality learning from it. It was just, in my opinion, a lesson in how to deal with mental and physical f***ing punishment. Looking back on this, you know, how physically demanding it was, and how psychologically f***ing crushing it was, you know, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around these women that are graduating Ranger school. Now, am I going to tell you that it's impossible? No, but I find it highly improbable, especially that 38-year-old woman, mother of two, that made it through Ranger school. F*** no. That is absolute bullsh**t, unless they are watering down the standards to the school, to the point where it's just become like a worthless f***ing school, you go through to punch your ticket like airborne school is today. Because back in the 50s and early 60s, airborne school was a f***ing ass-kicker. And it made you mentally and physically tough to become a paratrooper, taught you the skills of jumping out of a bird, and when you went to your f***ing unit as a paratrooper back in the day, you were a force to be reckoned with. And apparently that's what they're doing in Ranger school with the standards today. Now, I have not been sent anything, you know, in hard copy in regards to this, or I would have written an article and I would have dropped the f***ing to dime myself and I would have sent it to the media. But I had been contacted from RIs that were in, I believe, Ranger school for the first one or two women that graduated. And then I was contacted by another RI who has since retired, who was there for the 38-year-old woman and all of them had told me there was absolute bullsh**t. Their hands were held through the entire f***ing thing. A couple of them were allowed to recycle every f***ing phase. You know, one of them was allowed to recycle day one recycle to start over, which is almost unheard of. I believe I know two guys in my entire military career that had a day one recycle and made it. You know, I hope that there's some guys out there that actually watch my show that actually have any hard evidence on this because I will f***ing, I will drop the IG bomb, I will f***ing write up whatever it is and send it to the media. And the active duty f***ing people can chase me all they f***ing want. I'm retired, f*** them. If a woman wants to be an infantry f***ing grunt, guess what? You better be able to f***ing run the f***ing required distance in the f***ing or required amount of time. You better be able to carry your f***ing 12 miles in three hours or less and f***ing deal with all the weapons that you have to deal with without any undue whining and complaining and certainly no f***ing quitting. I mean, my course was 78 days long. That's just the standard Ranger School course. Their course was 47 to 58 days long. I'll also reading another article in regards to a senator that was requesting these same green books from these female Rangers that graduated Ranger School and they basically said, f*** you, we don't work for you, we work for the president. Imagine that, they keep files on all these Rangers going back to 1950, but these females who graduated Ranger School, so I'm told their records are gone. How am I supposed to f***ing take that? I don't know, and another thing that was told to me that these women were allowed to go back to the rear to take a shower and do personal hygiene every third day for like, I believe they were gone between two and six hours. All right, so you're going through the hell of Ranger School which is designed to be a long grueling process to wear you the f*** down and then see if you can f***ing make it to the end. When you're in the field, there's no showers. Maybe you get to f***ing sponge off your f***ing pits and your ass wants every blue moon when you're on the water detail to go down to the river to get some f***ing water for the patrol. But other than that, that's it, there is no f***ing break. Hell, there's hardly any f***ing sleep. I mean, God, f***. I mean, I don't want to be that guy that's like, you know, back in the day when it was hard, you know, because I talked to guys once at Ranger School during Vietnam and I talked to guys once at Ranger School during the Korean War. And, you know, what they went through was, you know, probably a good 30 to 40% more difficult than the s*** I went through. Just, you know, comparing, you know, apples to oranges. But, you know, I mean, my course was 78 days long. That's just the standard Ranger School course. Their course was 47 to 58 days long. So my course though, I believe it was a little easier. I had an additional 20 Samad Day stacked on top of that. That's before the Recycle and the Gulag time and the 21 days of f***ing Ranger that the regiment sent me through, which in and of itself was a hell that just f***ing sucked. There was absolutely no learning value in their pre-Ranger I went to when the regiment sent me. It was just a beat down session to get me ready for the beat down session of Ranger School. If you were to ask me on a scale of one to 100, the percentile chance that these women legitimately made it through the f***ing school, I would cap out at 3%. So 3%, they made it honestly, 97%, they didn't. Okay, so you guys can call me whatever you want. That's fine. I'm just telling you from my perspective, when I went through Ranger School, how f***ing hard and bullsh**t f***ing tough it was for me. And I just find it hard to believe, especially a 38 year old woman, mother of f***ing two, making it through Ranger School at the standard level that I went through it. I'm just gonna put it there. I don't f***ing buy it. That's just me. The way the army's going, it's disgusting me. They're cheapening the standards and it's only gonna cost lives in the future, especially if we come into an actual shooting war against a worthy adversary that has similar technology and military forces us. It's just gonna be f***ing bad and we have nobody to blame but ourselves.