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2006-05-05 Iraq

1st Iraqi to Graduate Army's Ranger School

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Posted by Sherry 2006-05-05 17:22|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Godspeed, Captain Arkan!

Posted by Bobby 2006-05-05 17:38|| 2006-05-05 17:38|| Front Page Top

#2 No, Special Forces soldiers may attend Ranger School but they are not the same. Ranger school is 8 weeks. Special Forces training can take from 6 months or more depending upon their specialty. The training of an SF medic can take a year or more. Rangers however, are now a component of the Special Operations community. A welcomed addition, most would say.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-05 17:44|| 2006-05-05 17:44|| Front Page Top

#3 IIRC, Ranger School is considered (whether technically or not) a requirement for infantry officers and special forces.

Posted by Spomogum Fleper7978 2006-05-05 17:51|| 2006-05-05 17:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Think of Special forces as the screwdrivers, duct tape and fine point tools of the army. Think of the Rangers as the 5lb sledge.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-05 17:52|| 2006-05-05 17:52|| Front Page Top

#5 .. .- -.---
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Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-05 18:04|| 2006-05-05 18:04|| Front Page Top

#6 I A TOOL?

Posted by Parabellum 2006-05-05 18:45|| 2006-05-05 18:45|| Front Page Top

#7 You'll never get to 18 wpm reading like that Para.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-05 18:51|| 2006-05-05 18:51|| Front Page Top

#8 It's the -.--- that's throwing me.

Posted by Parabellum 2006-05-05 19:22|| 2006-05-05 19:22|| Front Page Top

#9 What it say SPoD?

Posted by 6 2006-05-05 20:00|| 2006-05-05 20:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Some of these foreign graduates go on to rise to prominence. Susilo Bambam Yudhoyono graduated from US Army Ranger School the same year I did - 1976 (although not the same class) - now, 30 years later, he is President of Indonesia (and I'm a lowly small businessman in Bangkok).

Posted by Lone Ranger 2006-05-05 21:21|| 2006-05-05 21:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Green Berets are well-educated Rangers and Airborne warriors, the trained-to-kill/overcome University Professors-Theorists of the Army.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-05 21:53|| 2006-05-05 21:53|| Front Page Top

#12 First comes airborn training - till you get that you're just a leg. (And "Air Assault" is judt a leg on a string, ask anyone with jump wings, heh).

Rangers are what most do before they go to the Q course for SF. Most officers go there after IOB or similar. Many enlistees go there straight from airborne school right after boot+infantry basic.

But rangers are nto SF nor are SF Rangers (anymore).

Different MOS. Different Missions, different training. But eveything a Ranger learns is needed by an SF operator.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-05-05 23:30|| 2006-05-05 23:30|| Front Page Top

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