Re: [semi-OT] black hawk down?

--- Don Greenfield <gryphon@sisna.com> wrote:
> At 04:58 PM 1/22/02 -0800, you wrote:
> >I suppose the problem there was putting the guy who
> hadn't done it before 
> >on the chopper in the first place.
> 
> According to the book, he hadn't even been through
> Ranger school.  WTF??

Most Rangers in the Ranger Regiment havn't.  They go
to an abbreviated version thereof (RIP).  Ranger
Course is a leadership development course
(allegedly--most tabbed Rangers I've met have been
really crappy leaders)

John

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