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mountaingoat · Post by **mountaingoat** » November 9th, 2009, 7:32 pm

Hello Rangers and forum members,

I am an 11B (Spc) in the LRS company B Trp 38 CAV (LRS) (ABN) on West Ft. Hood, TX. My Airborne class was in Jan of 07 (C co), and i joined 12 Sep 2006. This is my first duty assignment and i have recently returned from a 12 month tour in Iraq in august. I will be going to Ft. Bragg come Feb of 2010 and hope to get in a scout platoon and go to Ranger School. I hope to soak up further knowledge on Ranger School and pt prep for that on this site. If you have any questions on any of my information please message me. Thank you for your time and service. -mgoat

Reiver · Post by **Reiver** » November 9th, 2009, 7:45 pm

...& what do you think about Your choices, so far?

K.Ingraham · Post by **K.Ingraham** » November 9th, 2009, 8:08 pm

Welcome aboard.
Since you have a PCS lined up & have combat time, why not just go for the full monty and apply for our Regiment, instead of just hoping for a tab?
Just do it.

mountaingoat · Post by **mountaingoat** » November 9th, 2009, 8:15 pm

Thank you Zonk, and ZoneIV. Reiver, I am dissapointed with my choices in the beginning of my enlistment. For the first two years i prioritized partying and myself above professionalism and a sense of pride for my job. I joined at 17 turning 18 with an option 40 contract. Being the young 18 year old punk that i was i chose partying at panama city, florida over my goals to become a Ranger. I made the biggest most regretted mistake of my life and volentarily withdrew. There hasn't been a day in the three years since that i haven't regretted that decision. My Iraq tour brought what is important to me into perspective. Now i am trying to be the best leader and hopefully soon NCO i can be. Alot of my units senior NCOs were RIs and we have a few Rangers from Batt. They all say that Ranger School is not only a great leadership school but it teaches you alot about yourself. And since i am going to the 82nd i would like to go to a scout platoon to a faster moving, smaller, more close knit group.

mountaingoat · Post by **mountaingoat** » November 9th, 2009, 8:18 pm

K.Ingraham, I would give my left nut to have a second chance to be in the 75th. However i have always been told that once you quit you can never come back. I will forever suffer from my weak heartedness as a stupid teenager.

Reiver · Post by **Reiver** » November 9th, 2009, 8:31 pm

Not sure why I read what I did from your initial Post...but...

Still young, can achieve what you TRULY Apply yourself towards.

" Some" things I attempted in my service were with no anticipation of success...BUT
didn't want to be sitting on my front porch rocker (cleaning 12ga), decades later, wondering if?

Do NOT self select. The system will/can do that for you. Everyone's biggest obstacle exists between their own ears.

Corny line from Movie Trailer, I know; "Everyman dies, not everyman truly lives".

Live, Lad.

OUT

mountaingoat · Post by **mountaingoat** » November 9th, 2009, 8:44 pm

Thank you Reiver. All i can do is learn from my mistakes. Shoot, move, and communicate...

K.Ingraham · Post by **K.Ingraham** » November 9th, 2009, 11:09 pm

mountaingoat wrote:K.Ingraham, I would give my left nut to have a second chance to be in the 75th. However i have always been told that once you quit you can never come back. I will forever suffer from my weak heartedness as a stupid teenager.

Sometimes having a monkey on your back can drive you on to even greater things.
I don't know about the 'one shot' only thing, even if the 75th is closed to you, do well as a team leader and once you're tabbed consider some of the other high speed/low drag outfits out there.

mountaingoat · Post by **mountaingoat** » November 10th, 2009, 4:20 am

K.Ingraham wrote:
Sometimes having a monkey on your back can drive you on to even greater things.
I don't know about the 'one shot' only thing, even if the 75th is closed to you, do well as a team leader and once you're tabbed consider some of the other high speed/low drag outfits out there.

Good advice K. I have aspirations for that sexy unit at Bragg in the future. But i want a few more years of training. Once i hit SSG, hopefully tabbed, and have another deployment under my belt i'll test my mettle there.

Reiver · Post by **Reiver** » November 10th, 2009, 11:28 am

Always good to have "a" plan. Remember the old dictum, "no plan survives contact with the enemy", or reality for that matter.

If you wait for THE perfect time to execute a plan, you'll probably never do so, for there is no "perfect" time.

Spent 25 years on Bragg. Last 23 with the same Unit, arriving as a SP5, retiring as a SGM. "Who Dares Wins".

OUT

mountaingoat · Post by **mountaingoat** » November 10th, 2009, 12:18 pm

Reiver wrote:Always good to have "a" plan. Remember the old dictum, "no plan survives contact with the enemy", or reality for that matter.

If you wait for THE perfect time to execute a plan, you'll probably never do so, for there is no "perfect" time.

Spent 25 years on Bragg. Last 23 with the same Unit, arriving as a SP5, retiring as a SGM. "Who Dares Wins".

OUT

Reiver, would you suggest i try to go to the spring selection next year then? And just give the best i have and some more? I have been getting those emails since i became a specialist in 08. I know its because i'm 11B, Airborne, and have a 127 GT. I would like to know your opinion. Thank you. -mgoat

RANGER513 · Post by **RANGER513** » November 10th, 2009, 6:05 pm

Welcome here, Goat.

Thank you for your service to our fine, OUTSTANDING country.

Now......I have to say wait just a freaking fraking minute here......

ya say you would give the left side of your manlyhood to join our beloved Ranger Regiment.....but you " heard " that since ya pulled out of a ealier option 40 contract a few years ago ya now can't join the 75th ??????

If it is truely a goal that ya want to achieve, then I would sure as hell research that " heard " information and do EVERYTHING that I could to get in..................................well......short of doing the 3rd Batt knees thing under someone's desk that is.

NEVER QUIT !!!

Earthpig · Post by **Earthpig** » November 10th, 2009, 6:08 pm

Welcome to the site, Airborne. Thanks for your continued service.

RLTW
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