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Basic Training, Infantry AIT, Airborne School, Ranger School — these are some of the many schools listed when people try to express to others their proficiency in tactical skills. If a potential employer reads “Ranger School,” then it is inferred that the job candidate has a high level of tactical knowledge. It’s true, to a […]
There are millions of old wives tales explaining how soldiers, Marines, airmen or sailors keep themselves awake. The military is the one place where you can count on sleep deprivation of all sorts, from the heavy eyelids of a 24 hour CQ or Staff Duty shift, to the directly imposed deprivation of SERE school. The […]
This is part two of two of “Officers at Ranger School.” Read Part I here. 4. Be prepared Contrary to popular belief, Ranger School is not much of a “school” at all. It’s more of an assessment. Yes, you do receive classes in how to do most every task that you are graded on. The […]
Ranger School. “The School of all Schools.” “Not For the Weak or Fainthearted.” “But what about Special Forces? FUCK SPECIAL FORCES!” There are so many articles, listicles, memes, ridiculous videos, and social media rants over the subject that it has essentially been beaten and stabbed to death, resurrected by the Red Woman, involved in an […]
When I went to Ranger School, I memorized the Ranger Creed and learned that “surrender is not a Ranger word.” I love that. As a student of military history, the Green Beret knows what happens after surrender. In Afghanistan, there were some very frank team-room discussions about capture. Short of being blown unconscious by an […]
The Ranger training program, led by Company A, 1-502nd, is one of the multiple building partner capacity missions the around 1,800 member strong task force leads in Iraq.
“This program is important because it lays the foundation for an elite Iraqi unit,” said Capt. Peter Jacob, commander of Company A. “Students start at day one as an individual and come away at the end of this course as part of a team.”
This is a large development. Just last year reports emerged that SOF, as a whole, was going to or had rejected women in SOF. However, political marching orders did not sway, and women were to be enveloped into operational roles.
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A 21-year-old Army officer died after falling ill during his first day at the military‘s grueling Ranger School in Georgia. The soldier, 2nd Lt. Michael R. Parros, died Wednesday at a hospital two days after he became sick during training at Fort Benning. The Army said in a news release that doctors treated Parros for […]
For more than two months, Ranger students train to exhaustion, pushing the limits of their bodies, minds, and souls and on average, only one in three candidates makes it through the grueling course. The average student is in the rank of E4 through E6 on the enlisted side and O1 through 03 for the officers. […]
Here, Major Lisa Jaster, one of the first women to graduate Ranger School, speaks about the physical and mental struggles she faced during the course.
This video is part one of a three-part series on Major Lisa Jaster’s journey to complete U.S. Army Ranger School, earning her Ranger tab.
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