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Air Force Ranger School / Ranger School / Ranger School Stories July 31, 2020
READ MOREThe Hard Stuff isn’t Easy by Stephen Kaminski What I remember from class 11-14: August – November 2014 The first mission Doing what was wrong Failing Mountains The First Ranger School Mission In the summer of 2012, I am at 15,000’ in the air as I provide armed overwatch from […]
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READ MOREStrawberry Ice Cream by Loren Long It was February and my class, 4-95, was about halfway through the field portion in Dahlonega, Georgia. It had been one of the coldest winters on record and we even received snow during the night on one of the mountains. It was so cold […]
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READ MOREA Well-Timed Face Plant by Ed McAlister During Swamp Phase, we were moving to do a raid and I was humping the M60. The M60s we used in Ranger School had all seen hard service, and this Pig was on its last legs – gas tube was loose, the trigger […]
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Life Lessons from US Army Ranger School by Jeff Plante We were in the home stretch of a multi-party partnership negotiation. An associate and myself were working at one of the firms site, finalizing some critical details. After several months of intense interaction and alignment between multiple firms on a […]
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Ranger School / Ranger School Stories / Rangers Deployed June 10, 2020
READ MORE12 Miles Ended Before I Did by Samuel L. Russell, COL (R) The naysayers and detractors said we couldn’t make it. They said we had no business being there; that because our career fields didn’t require ranger training we inherently lacked the external drive to accomplish such a demanding course. […]
