arctic phase

donjoshua · Post by **donjoshua** » April 21st, 2004, 9:25 am

I was lifting weights at the gym and a dude was getting trained by one of the trainers. I over hear him say he was a ranger. He mentioned the 4th phase of Ranger School, the Arctic Phase. I have done plenty of reading on the subject and never came across this phase. Can I call a bull shit here guys?

thx,

Josh

PS He said the he was the driver for a Colonel or General Bird. I forget which.

Looon · Post by **Looon** » April 21st, 2004, 9:49 am

Yes. Ask him if Santa Clause was one of the instructors.

BadMuther · Post by **BadMuther** » April 21st, 2004, 10:11 am

donjoshua wrote:I was lifting weights at the gym and a dude was getting trained by one of the trainers. I over hear him say he was a ranger. He mentioned the 4th phase of Ranger School, the Arctic Phase. I have done plenty of reading on the subject and never came across this phase. Can I call a bull shit here guys?

thx,

Josh

PS He said the he was the driver for a Colonel or General Bird. I forget which.

For first clue should have been the guy was using a trainer.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » April 21st, 2004, 10:15 am

Ranger Luna wrote:Yes. Ask him if Santa Clause was one of the instructors.

Absolutely Perfect Ranger Luna.

donjoshua · Post by **donjoshua** » April 21st, 2004, 10:59 am

Ranger Luna wrote:Yes. Ask him if Santa Clause was one of the instructors.

That's great LOL!!!

He sounded like the biggest load of shit but I didn't want to make him look like a moron with out making sure. He has memorized some info such as 75th Regiment and Ranger School starting in Georgia.

He was telling me that he was a Ranger for 5 years,and that he was in Bosnia. I asked him why he didn't stay in the service he said he got burntout because they had him on casualty clean up or something like that.

How should I approach him? Should I be polite about it or should I just let him know I think he's full of shit? I want to ask him what class he was in and then go bring him a picture of that class and ask him to point himself out. Good idea or should I just not bother with this loser.

Josh

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » April 21st, 2004, 11:12 am

You should print out a list of the phases of Ranger School from the RTB website and ask him to point out to you were it says 'Arctic Phase'. Make sure you do this in front of his trainer so he has to live through the whole experience of the guy looking at him with disdain every time he looks at him.

http://www-benning.army.mil/rtb/rtbmain.htm

or from here:

http://www.armyranger.com/mod.php?mod=u ... page_id=77

Blacksrt4 · Post by **Blacksrt4** » April 21st, 2004, 1:30 pm

Ranger Spartan nailed it, that would be so bad ass. I met a Ranger at school a real one he was in uniform and was tabbed and had the combat scrool (1st batt.). I told him I got an option 40 he said HOOAH!! I was amazed to see a Ranger from here though ( Ft. Jackson).

BadMuther · Post by **BadMuther** » April 21st, 2004, 1:34 pm

blacksrt4 wrote:Ranger Spartan nailed it, that would be so bad ass. I met a Ranger at school a real one he was in uniform and was tabbed and had the combat scrool (1st batt.). I told him I got an option 40 he said HOOAH!! I was amazed to see a Ranger from here though ( Ft. Jackson).

Combat scrools are so kewl........how's skool going?

Oilpatch · Post by **Oilpatch** » April 21st, 2004, 2:48 pm

You might even want to ask a few more questions first; where in the arctic did this "arctic phase" take place, where were some of the other phases, etc. Don't give anything away yet.

It sounds like he'd be happy to oblige you with some more "information" with which to set your hook even deeper.

Oilpatch

Blacksrt4 · Post by **Blacksrt4** » April 21st, 2004, 2:51 pm

Im doing a lot better than I had been doing in the past few weeks, I finaly got everything above an 80. We just got our cap and gowns so cant wait to graduate and then ship out!!!

Lugnuttz · Post by **Lugnuttz** » April 21st, 2004, 4:08 pm

Terry Welshan wrote:Hey,
Doesn't an ice storm on Mt. Yonah in 5 inches of snow and single digit tempertures count as "arctic phase" ?

Amen to that shit.....

Silverback · Post by **Silverback** » April 21st, 2004, 10:25 pm

I can't believe what I am hearing. No more Artic phase in Raner school????

The standards get a little lower each day!

I had the last hard class!

Slowpoke · Post by **Slowpoke** » April 22nd, 2004, 12:35 am

Talk to the gym manager and find out if they have internet acsess on the gyms comfuser. Go online next time and invite him to join us.

donjoshua · Post by **donjoshua** » April 22nd, 2004, 8:56 am

I am going to try and bait this shitbag to tell me more stories about being a Ranger and when I feel like he's up to his eyeballs in shit I'll blast his poser ass. Thx for the good idea's Ranger's.

Josh

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