K.Ingraham wrote:RANGER513 wrote:Ranger Ingraham, that's FUCKING right ! Rain-ger Batt ! ( There ABNRGR289, I said FUCK ! HA ! ) :D
If it ain't raining, we ain't training ! Funny, we always had South Rainer F.T.X.'s in the damn winter ! Of course, I'm sure it was MUCH, MUCH colder back when it was REALLY hard, huh Ranger Ingraham ! HA !
Damn, feels good to be back talking to fellow Rangers.
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damn right!
It was always the Last Hard Class. I grew up under fresh VN vets who always let us know that 'VOLAR' wasn't shit. They, of course, had been draftees who couldn't hold a candle to the lifer NCOs that pre-Vietnam broke starch 3x daily, even in the field, who in turn had been brought up by the frostbit Korea vets in the late '50s - who were oft reminded by the Anzio, Bulge & Okinawa vets that they'd missed the Big One.
The mass people's army that beat the nazis wasn't shit - it couldn't live up to the professional standards of the 30 year corporals on their far flung garrisons of the '20s & the Depression era, when soldiers shoed horses and were really hard. They weren't shit for not having been there ass deep in mud & blood in the trenches....but st least the Doughboys had water, not like when BlackJack took the Old Soldiers on a romp after Senior Villa, but they had chow, it was a holiday compared to General Crook's Starvation March of late 1876...(Just ask Jim or Abell - they'd know for sure
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The way the last era was the hardest, fucking Washington must've LEVITATED across the Delaware...
The Bicentennial years really were before goretex appeared - not that it mattered, when batt did get issued the stuff (long after my day - you know, when we were HARD), they wouldn't let you wear it anyway. Might as well have asked to use umbrellas in the field.
Welcome to the PB, Brother. Get that packet in, can't let those Legshavers get the numbers on us Granola Munchers.
Wait...... We didn't........shit ya, I think we did.........I'll be right back, I gotta go wash my junk in the sink. 
