Ranger Loadout: MK48 Machine Gunner

After successfully completing RIP (Ranger Indoctrination Program later renamed RASP) I was assigned to 2nd Ranger Battalion (Cco-MadSlashers). When I arrived at Ft. Lewis it was basically empty. I was sent on a reach-back bird (planes that carry people into, and out of combat for various reasons) to meet my already deployed platoon. After a […]

Q&A with Former Ranger Nick Irving, Author of “The Reaper”

Hey folks, we are going to be doing an exclusive Q&A session with Nick Irving, a former Ranger sniper and the author of the best selling memoir, the Reaper.  Please post your questions below and I’ll choose the best four or five to send over to him.

The time my Special Forces team accidentally burned down a Korean forest (Pt.1)

Most of my time overseas in my years with the First Special Forces Group (Airborne) was spent in the cold-weather months in the Republic of Korea (ROK)—land of the little PX, land of rotting cabbage and burning tires in winter, land of Reebok tennis shoes and women with flat buttocks, land of endless rice fields and animal manure, land of one-eye buffalo and Kiamaster trucks.