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1st Ranger Battalion: It’s been 70 Years since Sened Station

On February 11th 1943, Darby’s 1st Battalion Rangers conducted their first night raid of WWII on a rail town in Southern Tunisia called Sened Station. They did not have the technology or weapons that modern-day Rangers are blessed with, but their willingness, tactical knowledge, and mastery of the night was very similar to the Rangers […]

Schwarzkopf, Grenada, and the Rangers

I was surprised to find out that before he was “Stormin’ Norman” leading coalition forces to a swift victory against Iraqi forces during the Gulf War, he was the newly promoted Brigadier General Norman Schwarzkopf of the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division. There Schwarzkopf found himself in charge of ground forces in Grenada during Operation Urgent […]

The Evolution of the 75th Ranger Regiment: Assault Communications

The 75th Ranger Regiment is a lethal, agile and flexible force, capable of executing a myriad of complex, joint special operations missions in support of U.S. policy and objectives. Today’s Ranger Regiment is the Army’s premier raiding force. With complexity came the need for smaller, robust command and control, and communications capabilities that could be […]

Ranger Mass-Cas in Afghanistan: The Airborne Ranger in the Sky

A Mass Casualty event is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.  When a military unit sustains so many injuries that it can no longer support itself, it becomes what is known as a Mass-Cas event.  This doesn’t happen very often, thankfully, although we know of some other examples where casualties became overwhelming, such as […]

The Ranger T-Shirt Controversy

The other day, Jeremy Scahill decided to go ahead and tweet a picture of me wearing my Ranger t-shirt out at a bar in Brooklyn.  No one in the bar seemed to care about it, but the Twitter commandos sure did.  There was a decent sized shit storm of vegan lesbians calling for blood in […]

2nd Ranger Battalion and the Panama Prison Riot of 1994

There are certain Special Operations legends out there that are sometimes hard to make heads or tails of.  One involves a little-known prison riot in Panama which resulted in a subsequent snatch and grab operation that the 2nd Ranger Battalion was involved in.  The author first heard about this event from his Platoon Leader in […]

Ranger Legends: Ash Street Shootout

There are some Ranger legends out there, the kind a Platoon Sergeant or even a Sergeant Major who has served in the 75th Ranger Regiment might tell you about if you ask him.  The time 2/75 got called in to deal with a prison riot in Central America with axe handles, the combat jump into […]

The Ranger Knowledge Handbook

There is always a story behind every book. What made the author put pen to paper? What was the inspiration? I think that as a reader, knowing those things will give you a lot of value added to your purchase as well as your time invested into reading that work. So this is me telling […]

Ranger School: The Golden Patrol

There I was, a brand new E-2 in 3rd Ranger Battalion.  I had been there maybe two months when the Battalion Sergeant Major told our Company First Sergeant that A/co was not sending enough of our guys to Ranger School.  We were light on tabbed Spec-4s at the time.  So, in accordance with the Sergeant […]

Rangers and SEALs to Train Women By 2015/2016

AP just reported the Rangers and SEALs will be training women starting in mid ’15 & ’16 respectively. I hate to tell you “I told you so,” but I did. I wrote an article about how the military has integrated the sexes. Publicly, the military says “same standards,” but the practice is actually much different. […]