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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Johnny Message: Ivan He is going to be moved to BAMC San Antonio,Texas He has a team of doctors waiting. The only hold up is getting him approved for the ICU unit at BAMC as soon as the officer in charge gives go ahead. We have acquired transportation and is awaiting go ahead. He will be flown on fixed wing aircraft. They removed his breathing tube and is now talking some crazy stuff. We had a hell of a time with doctor and insurance plan getting him moved. If you use tri-care get the high end policy for you and your family. Ivan had the standard policy. We were lucky that we had a very cooperative insurance agent This goeeeees out to Marrrrrteeeeeeen in australia ask your wifeeeeee how to speeeeeell changeing. Thursday afternoon Ivan will fly out at 1p.m. Friday. Choppe/Dino need to come by and pick up cooler We will be at hospital tonight and half a day tommorow Doctor's in Tejas want him to have 24 hours without tube in mouth before flight. According too head nurse tod Friday morning Ivan is up and well Transport is in route to columbus Ivan said he is ready to go. Is in good spirit. If you want to come see Ivan in texas i can arange place for you to stay no cost. Ivan knows he's hurt bad. He said it is like when you are on a mission and you get hurt there is nothing you can do but go forward. |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Robert Suchke Message: Girls in Ranger school? Now who’s bright idea was that? Certainly not someone who has ever been though Ranger School or gives a hoot about the impact of such a foolish directive. Most likely this is another social engineering idea from some naive politician who wants the liberal vote and cares less about the outcome on Ranger training or the quality of the product at graduation. Ranger training is primarily a leadership school, taught under austere and somewhat hazardous conditions that as closely as possible duplicate the stresses of combat. If you can function and lead others under simulated combat conditions when you are dog tired having little sleep, cold, wet, miserable, hungry and up against a killer time schedule; then you have a small inkling of what Ranger training is all about. Add to that navigating at night, motivating others to ‘drive on’ though swamps or laurel thickets, in the freezing rain, in the pitch-black darkness over many kilometers to reach your objective. Now don’t misunderstand me, there are some girls out there who can do that. Maybe there is a ‘G.I. Jane’ like the actress Demi Moore portrayed who can make it though. I honestly think there are very few who could make it and to what end? Do we really have a requirement for female Rangers? If the standards are kept the same as for men and the playing field is level, then go ahead let them try. If one can make it without a compromise in the standards, then I’ll be the first in line to shake their hand. My concern is the drop in standards. We want Rangers to be the best-trained warriors that the Army can possibly have. We ask of them impossible feats. We depend on their abilities to accomplish the mission no matter what obstacle is placed in front of them. We look at a soldier wearing a Ranger tab and know what his capabilities are. He has proven leadership qualities under the worst possible conditions. I recall a time in Vietnam; when we were stranded for six days, deep in the jungle during the monsoon. We had only one C-ration for that entire time as we had been told it was a short duration mission; in and out. Well, the weather closed in and the helicopters could not fly. Everthing was socked in. Well outside of artillery range, we survived by relying on our training. One guy even said on the sixth day, “Hell, this ain’t as hard as Ranger School.” We each had a frame of reference in Ranger School that was the golden standard for tough training. There was no quit or compromise. We used our skills to survive in a hostile environment. That standard of training must be maintained or then ‘Ranger’ means nothing. Like the black beret, the Army is making another big mistake in tinkering with Ranger training. The black beret, once proudly worn by Rangers, today is being phased out of the rest of the Army as a failure. The troops don’t like it and it means nothing. That is one more example of social engineering gone wrong. The gay issue is another one, but I won’t go into that. If the agenda of the politicians is to destroy our military capability, then I guess the Mayans were right. 2012 will be the end of the world! |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Joe Mattison Message: Id like to send out a special invite to all USMRA Members to join me at the "Over Hang" on Camp Merrill. I'll be there NLT 1700 hrs (5 PM), on Friday, 19 July. I'd like to share a "cold one" with all who can, and would like to attend. It'll be good to be back "home" again, at Camp Merrill. Hope you can make it, all of you! |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Lance Bagley Message: Rangers, I will miss the meeting tomorrow, as my wife and I will be traveling to Berlin to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. It is hard to believe it has been 25 years since I tore that sucker down! Longwalker, wish you were joining us! RLTW> |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Jim Regan Message: WOW! Don't usually come back to the site on the same day, let alone the same morning. Read Mike's post at about 08:20. Giggled and looked further. Low and behold, the "Spell Master" is gone! Webmaster done good! See Ya'll at the CCO. Jim RLTW/L&P |
