Re: [semi-OT] black hawk down?

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Don Greenfield wrote:

> At 04:30 PM 1/25/02 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> >--- Don Greenfield <gryphon@sisna.com> wrote:
> > > At 04:58 PM 1/22/02 -0800, you wrote:
[...]
> > > 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)
> 
> How long is this abbreviated course?	I thought that Rangers were
supposed 
> to be (relatively) elite troops.  Not Special Forces/SEAL level, but
better 
> than the ordinary run of troops.  Hold on, let me Google it. . .THREE 
> WEEKS! That's it?  Huh, for some reason I was under the impression it
was a 
> several month course.

It's a "fast-food world" we all live in anymore.

:-/

Indy