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Jim
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Interesting. Welcome...
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42d Vn Ranger Battalion 1969-1970
Trainer, El Salvador 86-87
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Nice intro. Welcome, and best of luck to you.

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Welcome to the site little brother!
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
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Welcome.
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Welcome...
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Welcome to the site, Josh.


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Minnesota wrote:If you got the motivation, you sure as hell could be both! Pararescue is the dream, but you gotta work for it. Get all the skills you can from the 75th, then go for the ultimate goal. I'm hoping to pass their indoc when I'm 22 or 23. Then as long as I'm still walking, spend my life as a PJ. Wil Willis did it, we can too!
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I hope you fail Minnesota.

Let me assure you, if skovy91 wanted to be a PJ, he would be a PJ. Because heres the thing, he physically and mentally prepared himself to do any entry level indoc/selection course in the military, and given his performance thus far, I am confident he could make it into any unit in the U.S. Military. That is why he will be successful and you won't. The 75th Ranger Regiment is not a stepping stone.
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt

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Not sure where you picked up your little 2% success rate statistic, nor do I care. But if you think that the Ranger route is the "easy" route as opposed to the 18x program, you are dead wrong. They are two different paths to two completely different objectives. They are both arduous to say the least. All I am getting at, is that you are in for a rude suprise if you think you are taking the easy route. As a recruiter, I will get guys who come in saying I want to do "x" because I don't think I would make it in "y". My response to them is that unless you have the attitude that you can make it in any MOS, unit, etc. than I don't want you and you likely will not make it into whatever it is you think you can get into. I had a CSM who once said that "if you gave a squad of Rangers a TM (technical manual) on an F-16, they would have it up and flying by the end of the week". As a Ranger you have to have the attitude that you can take on anything, no obstacle is too high, and no challenge too great. I firmly believe that the majority of the Rangers that I have served with could hold there own in any selection course, unit, MOS, or whatever.

The physical aspect is only a portion of the challenge you have ahead. If you don't have the right attitude and demeanor, you will never make it.
I posted this on some other kids thread, but I believe it applies to you as well.
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt

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