Marines did go thru Ranger school ....
I'm a grad of Ranger class 72-5 (class was actually in '71 because of the fiscal year, graduating just before Thanksgiving) and we had Marines going thru the course then so I'm pretty sure they were doing it in the 60's. I remember ragging one of them because he went on sick call and 'besmirching' the reputation of the Corps by pansying .... lol. Needless to say, it didn't go over well, but you have to remember everyone was mentally geared to avoid any display of weakness ... because you never knew what might precipitate a recycle ... and no one wanted to go through a recycle ... as it was the course then was eight weeks, two days and thirteen minutes long ... and nobody wanted to spend a second longer.
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