Why I haven't been around

[M-EightySix]

Hello Rangers and fellow DEPs,


My name is Patrick. I joined this message board in September after talking with my recruiter. By using the search function and posting you all provided me with great answers to the many questions that I had. Later that month I went to MEPs and was temporarily disqualified. When I went to MEPs I planned on becoming an MP because I thought that Rangers was way too hard. But as I read more on this site I realized that it was possible for me to do it. After a waiting for months I went back to MEPs and got the option 40. I posted about it on this board.
Since then my life has been hectic. School has been very challenging; my mother gets crazier as my ship date draws nearer. I’ve been working out with my recruiters and going to DEP functions. But unfortunately I have been absent from this board because of my busy schedule. I am posting this message to apologize for not doing the assignments or participating. Please forgive me.
In the future, especially after school is over, I will try and do the assignments and post more. But if I don’t, I’m sorry.
My ship date is July 6th and until then I will receive and report information on this board. I will also continue to run with my recruiters and go to DEP functions. Hopefully with your help I will become a Ranger.

Thanks,

Patrick

[Willy]

O shit just waiting for the hammer to fall. This could get ugly. I see the smoke raising already.

[KW Driver]

I'll leave it at this. Get your shit. Focus on what will make you successful at wearing the scroll. If it's a distraction, eliminate it. If it negatively affects attaining your goal, remove it from your life, now. Your post sounded like a bunch of sniveling excuses. I don't think you're focused on succeeding. You better figure out what you want and go after it with everything you have, starting right fucking now. Your post has no determination in its tone. It sounds like a prologue to a why I didn't make it speech. Get your shit together now. PT every day. hard. Unless you are on the track team, you need to run till you puke every day. You need to push till your body, not your mind, can't do one more. You need to get hard, mentally hard, right now. I personally don't think you're going to make it. You don't have the mental strength for it, reading your post. Prove me wrong and don't waste your slot. There are plenty of other waiting in line for your slot who can make it. Don’t be a thief.

and do pushups. right now. And put your feet up on something high.


edited for spelling.

[Earthpig]

This web site isn't going to make you a Ranger. There was nothing even remotely like this when most of us went through it. It's in your heart. Either you want it bad enough or you don't...it's honestly that black and white. Get your diploma and then go earn your Tan Beret. Good luck.
RLTW
EP

[Bell]

What's to say? You wanna be a Ranger? Then pursue it to the end. Drive on and never ever ever evereverevereverever quit. Just do it.

RLTW
Bell

[fireranger]

Stay focused and don't quit.

[KW Driver]

you need to reread this. now, which group do you want to be in?

I searched but could not find an answer for my question so I will ask it here.

What percentage of applicants make it through RIP?

I read that 35% make it through Ranger School. Is this correct?

I have no idea, and honestly don't care, and would caution you to care either. I think you will find that few Rangers worry about that kind of shit too much, unlike other units in sister services appear to at times.

Sure, there are dropouts all the time, and the numbers can get high at times, but I never worried about them AT ALL. I was totally mission oriented, whether it was surviving RIP and earning my beret, or passing Ranger School and earning my Tab. If, at any time, a Ripee or Ranger School Student fell out for whatever reason, then they were dead to me. If they were RFS'd, they were dead to me. If they failed their PT test, they were dead to me. If they were peered out, they were dead to me. For whatever reason you want to imagine, if they ceased to be part of the team working by my side to accomplish the mission at hand, I had neither the time, nor the desire to worry about what that brought the numbers up to. They ceased to exist in my mind.

I am sure we had a lot of people that did not make it in my RIP class as well as my Ranger School class. But guess what? I honestly cannot remeber a single one of their names or faces. Why? Because they don't matter to me. Never have. Never will. In the mindset of most Rangers, you will see that an individual is one of two types (generally speaking):

1. Part of the team, and slugging it out with your brothers to accomplish the mission at hand.

2. Or an individual who is not contributing to that cause, and has usually failed himself or his brothers in arms.

I always chose to worry about the men that were getting it done, rather than the ones that were not. In addition, it is my opinion that those that want to be able to say that only x% of men pass XYZ training, and therefore it is the toughest in the world, tend to recruit people who will concentrate too much on the loosers and not enough on the winners. I don't give a shit about the 70% who fail, I want to know the 30% who succeeded.

People are gonna drop. That is a fact. At times, they will drop like flies. You would be much better served to keep your eye on the golden ring, and worry about the men who are still slugging it out standing next to you, rather than how many people didn't bring enough weight in their scrotum to handle the lifestyle.

[Willy]

As a father of a ranger. I will tell you one thing. Rip separates the men from the boys. RS separates men from better men. if you want to be a ranger you have to give a 100 percent. Your post said you were dxed from being and MP. You said you thought being a Ranger was too hard intill you started to read this site. The rangers here have been there and done that. If you don't have the will to be a ranger and just like the title of ranger. You are in the wrong place

[chkray]

Here's a hint, wild dick:

Eliminate the word "can't" from your vocabulary.

"I can't do this because of that." I can't go here because of this."

If you don't, you will NEVER make it. You will always find a reason why something can't be done, and you'll end up doing nothing consequential - just another wart on the ass of the world.

So you find out what your objective is - you make the determination that it WILL be done, and then you figure out how to get it done.

Thats it - thats all.

No "I can't's"
No "I will, if's"
No "I'd like to, but's"

Got it?

[SkyShark]

Hello

[M-EightySix]

I posted this topic so that the rangers and the DEPs wouldn't think that I was a piece of shit because I wasn't doing the assignments. But now I've made a better case for you all to think that I was a piece of shit. And I have been.

I wanted to join the Army so that people would be proud of me. I wanted people to look at me the same way I look at my grandfather who served in the Army during WWII. The same way I look at my neighbor the marine who fought in Vietnam. I want to serve my country in the best way possible. This is why I joined the Army. I knew that rangers was going to be hard. But I thought that if I focus on my reasons for wanting this goal. I would succeed. But during these last few months I lost focus on becoming a Ranger, because I was being stupid and I wasn't paying attention. It seemed like years until I would leave for training. But now it's right around the corner.

I'm going to put away all the silly excuses I've been using not to run or not to come to this site and learn more. Or not to do my homework. Right now I am going to begin to change myself. The real change won’t take place until I’m at Benning puking my guts out. I can’t wait.


Thank you for making me find my reasons.

I WILL Succeed

[jsmurphy]

I WILL SUCCED

Who's Ed?

Good luck.

[ANGRYCivilian]

Look kid,

Joining the Army so people will be proud of you is the wrong answer. The only motherfuckers that will be proud of you for that are other service members; everyone else hates you. Fuck them. Stop being insecure. Join because you want to give something to your country, and because you want to secure a decent place for your family to live. That sounds silly, I know; you may live in poverty when you get out, (and while you are in). It's the idea of trying to preserve a better place to live and crush those that would ruin that that is important.

[Silverback]

I posted this topic so that the rangers and the DEPs wouldn't think that I was a piece of shit because I wasn't doing the assignments. But now I've made a better case for you all to think that I was a piece of shit. And I have been.

I wanted to join the Army so that people would be proud of me. I wanted people to look at me the same way I look at my grandfather who served in the Army during WWII. The same way I look at my neighbor the marine who fought in Vietnam. I want to serve my country in the best way possible. This is why I joined the Army. I knew that rangers was going to be hard. But I thought that if I focus on my reasons for wanting this goal. I would succeed. But during these last few months I lost focus on becoming a Ranger, because I was being stupid and I wasn't paying attention. It seemed like years until I would leave for training. But now it's right around the corner.

I'm going to put away all the silly excuses I've been using not to run or not to come to this site and learn more. Or not to do my homework. Right now I am going to begin to change myself. The real change won’t take place until I’m at Benning puking my guts out. I can’t wait.


Thank you for making me find my reasons.

I WILL SUCCED

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[Vee]

Not at paying attention to detail

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