Re: [semi-OT] black hawk down?

--- Don Greenfield <gryphon@sisna.com> wrote:

> 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.

Ranger School is a several month course.  Rangers are
supposed to be really, really good light infantry. 
But that's more a factor of training time and training
budgets than courses run prior to entering the
regiment.  Oh, and almost all the leadership has been
to the real deal Ranger course.

John

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