UK: SAS top brass want to recruit super-fit 'GI Janes' to fight as special project launched

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2025-08-14 01:54

Article here. Excerpt:

'SAS commanders have revealed that they will need to recruit super fit female troops if the black-clad force is to fight in future wars.

The women will be recruited through Project Artemis, a programme aimed at bringing women into not only the SAS but also the SBS. Under the project female candidates, with at least two years’ service, get nine months’ mentoring to get them in shape to face selection.

It is hoped mental, physical and skill-based training under Project Artemis will help prepare the SAS selection course known to produce one of the world's most famous fighting forces.

Only one in ten male applicants pass the test. Combat roles were opened to women only in 2018.'

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Yes you will. You'll call it something else. "Standards evolution," or something equally ludicrous. But you will.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2025-08-14 01:55

It is a lowering of standards in giving women many months of extra training that men don't get.
How much better would the SAS and SBS be if men had eight months dedicated training even before they applied?
And why are women 'necessary'? The SAS is needing to look at itself after abuses in Afghanistan. Women are statistically likely to be more abusive than men, so on that scale having them around will likely increase the chances of incorrect behaviour in the field.

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Submitted by Douglas on Tue, 2025-08-26 19:53