How many RANGERS here?

[drine]

Reading freefalles line and some replies I was just wanting an idea. I came close but don't have a TAB. Close enough to know that the TAB signifies the wearer is the best small unit soldier on the planet!

[Optimus Prime]

My combat patch has an Airborne tab and I've been asked quite a few times how Airborne school was... I just say I have no idea. Silly little privates.

[jlpskydive]

Not a Ranger, but a Sapper. I was an engineer. :America:

[Tread_Head]

I made it only to mountain phase. That was when I was right out of college and in shape. After a year of train-up and another year in Iraq, I am not the example of physical fitness I once was. :weight_lift: Congrats to those who got all the way through, hopefully I'll get a second shot.

[Norton]

Not a Ranger.. but a Signalmen 72E

[arnaiz]

Serving long time a go in a Medical unit in Spain teached my what is modesty .

[drine]

Then Frefalle is it?

[tanstaafl4y]

I didn't make it to the course.

I was a 13B retrained to 13F. ONce I was waiting for the HQDA stamp of approval for my OJT and my battery sent me to pre-ranger. While I was there on a night move I stepped in a hole and tore 2 ligaments in my knee. Once I recovered I knew that physically I wouldn't be able to follow the career path I wanted so I re-upped as a 95B with plans to become a CID Warrant. While my CID packet was headed upline orders for Kosovo came down. While in Kosovo, I reinjured my knee and new injury in my back...It wasn't until Afganistan that my company commander decided my physical condition made me ineffective as a leader so I was medically discharged with a 60% rating from Veterans Affairs.

/Gee what do you know, maybe I should have listend to the doctors and quit pushing myself. Somedays I'm bitter and angry about the MRB. Otherdays I'm glad that things workedout the way they did. I have a nice deskjob and am still a part of "the team".

//What I was really angry about was havbing my ANCOC date bumped because I was on "profile"...Nothing bothers me more than knowing my sister "outranks me".

[Cavalryman]

Then Frefalle is it?

There's me...but I'm old and fat now and hesitate to claim the title for fear someone will want me to climb a mountain or run 10 miles or something like that.

Funny story: A few weeks ago, I was seeing a patient whose husband was wearing a Ranger baseball cap. I asked him if he was a Ranger and he said that he was. When I mentioned that I had graduated from Ranger school in 1978, he said, "1978!? Jesus Christ, I was barely born!" There was a moment of pained silence and I said, "You were under no obligation to point that out..."

[Cavalryman]

//What I was really angry about was havbing my ANCOC date bumped because I was on "profile"...Nothing bothers me more than knowing my sister "outranks me".

"There is absolutely nothing sexier than a woman that you have to salute in the morning!"

Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men

(My wife got promoted to O-4 before I did, but when we went for O-5, I got a 3 month lead on her. Now the race is on for O-6! Whoever gets promoted first gets to be on top! :icon_biggrin:)

[SteelCore]

Heehe! Classic.

[Cavalryman]

Update -- The promotion list came out last week and my name is on it. My wife isn't eligible until next year, so I hope she likes the look of the ceiling! :rockon:

To be honest, I never expected to make O-6. Now I have a bit of a difficult situation. You see, for several years, I have told people that, "If I were an O-6, I'd have an eagle tattooed on my dick so I could pull rank in the shower!" So, does anyone know a painless tattoo artist.....?

[M1 Tanker]

Congrats Cav! Thats pretty damn awesome. 0-6 is a big deal...when do you pin on?

[tanstaafl4y]

So, does anyone know a painless tattoo artist.....?

I heard (urban legend) that there was someone at FT. Bragg with a C-130 tat that encircled his waist. The cockpit was on his...Junk, wings on his hip, and open cargo ramp on his backside( surrounding the "exit") with jumpers on his legs to accompany his "jumpers".

/It was probably a BS story and I hope you all need the eye-bleach to clean out the mental picture you just formed...If I wasn't at work I'd google genital tattoo

[SteelCore]

I don't think there's such a thing as a painless tattoo, man. I mean, what would be the point? The pain is the entry fee, keeps every yahoo who 'wants' one from 'having' one.

If you have access to painkillers, that'd prolly do it.

Me, I'll not take a tatto on either head...evertything else is fair game!
Good luck...and enjoy the healing process...

Congrats on the bird, man! All that's left is stars!

[ELEFANTMKVI (The Inbred clown)]

I was an 11C, mortarman for 11 years then a 63T Bradley Fighting Vehicle systems mechanic for another 7 and a half. Was never a Ranger but a few of my friends were. They':thumbup:re damn fine people. [/I]

[Cavalryman]

Congrats Cav! Thats pretty damn awesome. 0-6 is a big deal...when do you pin on?

The usual promotion cycle is July 1, but I don't have enough T&E ("training and experience" -- my service's equivalent of "time in service") until October 1, so I'll put it on then. My (infantryman) son has volunteered to "tack it on so it won't come off"...I think he just wants to see if the old man is still tough! I'm not sure I'll let him do it -- I think he'd enjoy it too much.

[M1 Tanker]

Hey, if its not probably seated, its not a promotion :)

[drine]

I still get the "quakes" when I see brass, worse so for silver! Everyone that is except for my brother, he is working on LTC as an AF pilot. I punk his ASS!

OT, has anyone heard from frefalle? There's something I need to send him!