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The Reaper
04-26-2005, 21:36
I was privileged to be down at Fort Benning this past weekend for Best Ranger competition. Excellent weather after the storm Friday night.
GEN Schoomaker gave a great speech and the ceremony was very moving. Especially the part where they actually gave the winners Colt Gold Cup pistols.
Congratulations to the winners, CPT McCallum and SFC Nelson of 4th RTB.
Congrats also to the two SF Majors from CGSC who managed to take 4th place overall.
Well done, gents!
TR
TR, thanks for mentioning the 4th place finishers. That prompted me to go look who they were, and it turns out they're college classmates and good friends of mine. Obviously, they're both very hard men; always have been. Outstanding job, fellas!
CPTAUSRET
04-27-2005, 09:21
TR, thanks for mentioning the 4th place finishers. That prompted me to go look who they were, and it turns out they're college classmates and good friends of mine. Obviously, they're both very hard men; always have been. Outstanding job, fellas!
Congratulations to all involved.
G, you ought to extend them an invite to our site.
Terry
alphamale
04-27-2005, 15:55
Sir TR,
Did you happen to take any pictures?
FrontSight
The Reaper
04-27-2005, 16:05
Negative on the pics, sorry.
TR
Try this:
http://www.infantry.army.mil/bestrangercompetition/content/photos.htm
Another: http://www.blackfive.net/main/2005/04/best_ranger_200.html
brewmonkey
04-28-2005, 16:58
I was privileged to be down at Fort Benning this past weekend for Best Ranger competition. Excellent weather after the storm Friday night.
GEN Schoomaker gave a great speech and the ceremony was very moving. Especially the part where they actually gave the winners Colt Gold Cup pistols.
Congratulations to the winners, CPT McCallum and SFC Nelson of 4th RTB.
Congrats also to the two SF Majors from CGSC who managed to take 4th place overall.
Well done, gents!
TR
I did not realize we had 2 "locals" compete. Guess I now have to find them and buy a pint.
RangerRick
04-29-2005, 12:55
it was a great competion, except with the weather the teams got over the weekend. They are some good pics at
http://www.airborneranger.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=539
RR
Did you happen to take any pictures?
FrontSight
Is frontsight looking for pictures of the competition or of the winners?
Roguish Lawyer
06-20-2005, 11:36
They are running a series of programs covering this on the Military Channel. The competition is covered in a series of consecutively aired 1-hour shows. Very nicely done, IMO.
I have a question. The competition seems to be officer-heavy. Not sure if this is just a perception based on who is featured in the TV show or not. Is there a reason for this? I would think you'd have more NCOs than officers doing it.
alphamale
06-20-2005, 15:56
Is frontsight looking for pictures of the competition or of the winners?DennisW, are you kidding - cute camo-clad XY's exercising better-than-porn pics! Shirtless is even better. With my knives would be best of all! ::blissful sigh::
See? I am not very demanding! :lifter
RL, I missed it!
http://wings.discovery.com/convergence/bestranger/bestranger.html
"Don't miss Best Ranger on the Military Channel on Thu, June 16, at 8 p.m. ET."
::sniff::
FrontSight
I have a question. The competition seems to be officer-heavy. Not sure if this is just a perception based on who is featured in the TV show or not. Is there a reason for this? I would think you'd have more NCOs than officers doing it.at the risk of offending many, NCOs work for a living... :D
having said that with tongue in cheek, the two SF majors are in Command and General Staff College, with more PT time on their hands, not to mention energy, as C&GSC is not exactly a physical school...for them, the PT time is a stress relief from reports, papers and academic BS...as for the other officers, i would like to see what sort of duty positions they are in...i doubt that few are Company Commanders or Platoon Leaders...i would suspect they are instructors in the RTB or staff officers from here and there...few NCOs wind up in staff assignments, at least few wearing tabs...anyway from my experience, i've seen very few NCOs on staff who were tabbed Rangers...and staff assignments break one of two directions...too busy to do anything and lotsa time on your hands...mine tended toward the former, with the exception of the year i was a GLO, which was very much the latter...
SnafuRacer
06-20-2005, 16:16
RL, I missed it!
::sniff::
FrontSight
I've got it recorded on DVR. If anyone knows of a good easy way to transfer it to PC for burning onto CD/DVD or upload to FTP, I can do that.
Roguish Lawyer
06-20-2005, 16:52
RL, I missed it!
http://wings.discovery.com/convergence/bestranger/bestranger.html
"Don't miss Best Ranger on the Military Channel on Thu, June 16, at 8 p.m. ET."
::sniff::
FrontSight
I am sure it will run again many times. Get a TiVo.
I've been seeing reruns of it on the military channel for the past few days. Even today I think they are havin reruns still.
Sweetbriar
06-20-2005, 17:09
Get a TiVo.
Better yet, get a DVR. The discs are only about 50 cents apiece, so even if you don't want it forever, 8 hours of programs are still cheap.
I've got this year and last year's on DVD. I may never watch them again, but they're there... y'know?
Roguish Lawyer
06-20-2005, 17:10
Better yet, get a DVR. The discs are only about 50 cents apiece, so even if you don't want it forever, 8 hours of programs are still cheap.
I've got this year and last year's on DVD. I may never watch them again, but they're there... y'know?
TiVo is a DVR (digital video recorder). Perhaps you meant DVD-R? I think you'd want one in addition to a TiVo or other DVR, not in lieu of.
I am sure it will run again many times.
It has and will. I missed the original airing on 16 June but caught it last night. Well done, I enjoyed it.
haztacmedic
06-20-2005, 18:58
I noticed two guys from SOCOM in a "clandestine special operations unit" competing. They seemed to flow through each event like they were born to do it!
Im just suprised that they would be seen on TV being in that type of unit.
somedic
The Reaper
06-20-2005, 22:20
I noticed two guys from SOCOM in a "clandestine special operations unit" competing. They seemed to flow through each event like they were born to do it!
Im just suprised that they would be seen on TV being in that type of unit.
somedic
I am not, and their unit was never mentioned, IIRC.
Do you have a lot of experience with people from "that type of unit"?
TR
haztacmedic
06-21-2005, 02:06
Reaper: No experience at all with people from "that type of unit". It just seemed odd to me that it would be made known that they were in a "covert special operations unit". But whatever the thinking is on that I think most people that saw them in action would agree that they were most impressive in a sea of impressive competitors.