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Interesting. I'd like to know if there is a list of those who died in RS. There were two in my class, must have been late Aug 68, killed by lighting. One was Bowden, a shake and bake. I posted a story about him and Campbell, a marine who had stored his class A's in Bowden's locker. Another was an ol...

It's not a bad question. Way back when (64 when I went in), there were no organized Ranger units. Army policy at the time was that each combat arms unit at the platoon or company level would have one ranger qualified NCO or officer. I had a 91B (medic) MOS in 68 when I went through Ranger School so ...

It's definitely gotta be the 1st sergeant of the fighting 237th mess kit repair battlion!

It used to be back in Charlie C Rat days that one of the best combinations was a can of peaches from the B3 unit and a pound cake from the B2 unit. Now if you got that combination, you were in pretty good shape to trade for just about anything else. New troopers were fair game to be traded outta the...

Maybe the most famous example of this was in the UK. TE Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) resigned his commission in the British Army after WW1 and subsequently enlisted in the RAF in 1923. His cottage during his initial service was near Wool in Dorset (near the Tank Museum (highly recommend a visit if ...

Semper Fi Mac!

Yeah, you're right. The right spelling is "lightning". I was a summer Ranger, went through July and August. Not sure I would have made it in the winter. The joke back then was that winter Rangers got to sew their tab on with white thread. I remember needing "anti-shades" during m...

I'm guessing that "FOG" means "fucking old guy", so correct if the guess is wrong. Thanks for the welcomeness guys! I still try to do the Army daily dozen 4 or 5 times a week along with a bit of jogging and biking.

I don't know the class number but I started RS either on the 2nd or 3rd of July 1968. I remember the dates because I recall thinking that we'd get a day off for the 4th of July - boy was I mistaken. I was from the 12th SFGA out on the west coast. My Ranger Buddy was originally a big Russian kid, Ocy...