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- January 29th, 2018, 11:03 am
- Forum: Personal Gear
- Topic: Gear and Kit Improvements
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9261
Re: Gear and Kit Improvements
From a recon/ scout type unit perspective, the following applies. My thoughts are streamlined equals better. If you have a need to be prone, then you need to be as low as possible, to the point of wanting to cut buttons off of clothing get every possible advantage. Along with that, keep your gear in...
- January 16th, 2018, 3:28 pm
- Forum: The Mosh Pit
- Topic: ALL MEMBERS - Ranger Jim
- Replies: 45
- Views: 55074
Re: ALL MEMBERS - Ranger Jim
Rest easy Ranger. You have more than earned it.
- January 3rd, 2018, 5:51 pm
- Forum: The Mosh Pit
- Topic: ALL MEMBERS - Ranger Jim
- Replies: 45
- Views: 55074
Re: ALL MEMBERS - Ranger Jim
Damn. I just saw this.
Best wishes Ranger. You need to get better and come back around.
Best wishes Ranger. You need to get better and come back around.
- December 16th, 2017, 10:35 pm
- Forum: Airborne Operations
- Topic: Combat jumps since 9/11
- Replies: 114
- Views: 162154
Re: Combat jumps since 9/11
Thanks, PM on the way.Disinfertention wrote: ↑December 16th, 2017, 5:54 pm I wouldn't think so but nothing is impossible. If you have a specific example beyond what you posted feel free to PM me about it.
- December 15th, 2017, 11:27 pm
- Forum: Airborne Operations
- Topic: Combat jumps since 9/11
- Replies: 114
- Views: 162154
Re: Combat jumps since 9/11
Resurrecting the dead here, but this seems to be the thread to ask it in- lets say you were a non qualified jumper (MFF type) but you were mission essential personnel for an operation for some unit and made a jump under combat conditions while attached to someone else. Do you get a mustard stain (an...
- November 23rd, 2017, 10:33 pm
- Forum: Ranger, SOF and Military News
- Topic: MoH Leonard A. Funk: U.S. paratrooper who took out 40 Germans in 60 seconds
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7622
Re: MoH Leonard A. Funk: U.S. paratrooper who took out 40 Germans in 60 seconds
https://www.jamesdietz.com/proddetail.php?prod=jd-pr-073 This is the painting unveiled on Nov 23,1999 in Vicenza, Italy where the 508th was stationed at the time. Two of the paratroopers in the picture were flown over for the unveiling ceremony and then were able to spend some time in the C co area ...
- October 31st, 2017, 10:52 pm
- Forum: Ranger, SOF and Military News
- Topic: National Infantry Museum Dedicates New Global War on Terrorism Memorial
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2890
Re: National Infantry Museum Dedicates New Global War on Terrorism Memorial
Some day I'll make it back to Mother Benning to see this and other places.
- October 18th, 2017, 9:32 pm
- Forum: Personal Gear
- Topic: Plate carriers
- Replies: 31
- Views: 33193
Re: Plate carriers
Glad your gear is working out for you. I was doing some checking around for a new/ different plate carrier myself here lately, so this may be a viable option. I also spent some time looking at the T3 gear plate carriers. Most of them were too rich for my blood, however they do have one that was reas...
- October 10th, 2017, 3:58 pm
- Forum: The Mosh Pit
- Topic: Here We Go - Like or Hate?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11175
Re: Here We Go - Like or Hate?
The Army has about 2 million and one things it could focus on instead of fucking with another uniform fiasco. It's fairly simple Dress Blues, Class A's (Greens), Class B's (take the jacket off from the A's or if you really want give them a khaki short sleeved shirt),Class C's (for combat prep and tr...
- September 21st, 2017, 11:19 am
- Forum: Ranger, SOF and Military News
- Topic: 3d award CIB Recipients honored at Ft Benning
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9257
Re: 3d award CIB Recipients honored at Ft Benning
It boggles my mind how the Army uses mental gymnastics to define periods of war for the purposes of Combat awards like the CIB. Maybe I'm just oversimplifying it, but each combat action should have the possibility of earning a CIB. In my life there has been Grenada, Panama, Desert Storm/Shield, Soma...
- September 14th, 2017, 6:33 pm
- Forum: Ranger, SOF and Military News
- Topic: 3d award CIB Recipients honored at Ft Benning
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9257
Re: 3d award CIB Recipients honored at Ft Benning
My platoon sergeant had a CIB with a star. His first was earned during Desert Storm, the second in OIF circa 2005-2006. He was one of only a handful of guys that had a double that I encountered, although I'm sure there were several (hundreds) of senior NCO and officers that earned a second. Semi rel...
- September 8th, 2017, 1:35 pm
- Forum: Ranger, SOF and Military News
- Topic: 3d award CIB Recipients honored at Ft Benning
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9257
Re: 3d award CIB Recipients honored at Ft Benning
Correct me if I'm wrong but there is no current way possible to be a current 3 time awardee, right? Service periods would have to include (going backwards from most recent to older) GWOT, Desert Storm/ Somalia/ Cold War/ Panama/Grenada, and Vietnam or other previous wars? Either way, that is a hell...
- August 31st, 2017, 10:26 pm
- Forum: Ranger, SOF and Military News
- Topic: 3d award CIB Recipients honored at Ft Benning
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9257
Re: 3d award CIB Recipients honored at Ft Benning
Correct me if I'm wrong but there is no current way possible to be a current 3 time awardee, right? Service periods would have to include (going backwards from most recent to older) GWOT, Desert Storm/ Somalia/ Cold War/ Panama/Grenada, and Vietnam or other previous wars? Either way, that is a hell ...
- June 21st, 2017, 9:58 pm
- Forum: Other Country's Forces
- Topic: A Brief History Of The SAS, GB’s Fighting Elite
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8371
Re: A Brief History Of The SAS, GB’s Fighting Elite
I recently had the chance to take some training from Phil Singleton. He was one of the SAS assault element members from the Princess Gate rescue mission. Good course of instruction and a good time listening to the way things were back then on a variety of options. On a side note, Phil is probably th...
- June 6th, 2017, 4:53 pm
- Forum: Ranger History
- Topic: Today in Ranger history
- Replies: 135
- Views: 123545
Re: Today in Ranger history
June 6 1944. Operation OVERLORD commences. According to legend, American Captain Frank J Lilleyman, a Pathfinder from the 101st Airborne was the first paratrooper to jump into Normandy at approximately 0015 hours, setting the conditions for American and British paratroopers to jump, land and form up...