Perhaps the toughest training school in the Green Machine is Ranger training. If you successfully complete it, and about half wash out, you get to put a Ranger tab on your shoulder and thereafter you are a Ranger. Pretty simple, but not to our cancel culture:
In case you missed this nothingburger of a story last week, on Friday, Salon launched an attack on Senator Tom Cotton’s military record, saying that he claimed to be a U.S. Army Ranger, but “that’s not true.” Cotton, a decorated combat veteran who earned the Bronze Star, graduated Army Ranger school and was awarded the Ranger tab, qualifying him to serve in the elite unit. Salon’s claim is based on the fact that Cotton served with the 101st Airborne Division and not the legendary 75th Ranger Regiment.
Showing how liberal media outlets all stick together, Newsweek made an unusual move this week. Reporting on the brouhaha, National Review pointed out that graduates of Ranger school are regularly referred to as Rangers, citing a 2015 Newsweek article reporting on the first two female graduates of Ranger school. The article went on to say that the graduates “will become Rangers.” So how did Newsweek respond? They went back and retroactively edited the six-year-old article to remove the reference to the women as rangers. Insert the #HeadDesk hashtag here. (Fox News)
Go here to read the rest. My little brother took both Airborne and Ranger training. He is one of the few men to take Airborne school twice since he broke his arm the first time. His instructors told him that he was either very brave or very stupid, and they were betting on stupid! His short description of both schools was bitterly tough. Tom Cotton did both, as well as served in combat, and this idiotic attack on him merely demonstrates that the hate filled Left will stop at nothing.
“My little brother took both Airborne and Ranger training.” So did he pass? Don’t leave us hanging…..
Yep, although Airborne took two attempts due to his broken arm.
What Kurt Schlicter said: every rhetorical tool in their box is a lie. It didn’t used to be this way.
I read things like this and it just makes me infuriatingly angry, absolutely mad. The left is doing its best job to make itself as hateful and as hated as it can possibly be, and if they continue, then this won’t end well for them (or anybody else).
I get so confused. I thought you had an older brother and Dale Price had a younger brother.
Nope, just a younger brother. I do have various uncles and cousins I have mentioned over the years so it would be an easy mistake to make.
Post Trump the media is finally back to investigating the important stuff.
The Left lies so much no wonder they believe there’s no such thing as Truth.
Newsweek went to their archives and altered a six-year-old article because it contradicted their current preferred narrative. That’s precisely the sort of “journalism” they practiced in Stalin’s USSR, where party censors cut out from the Soviet Encyclopedia bios of those who’d fallen out of favor. Of course, today it only takes a few keystrokes on a computer instead of having to visit libraries and cut up books, but both acts demonstrate the same contempt for history and fear of the truth.
If anyone didn’t already have contempt for the hacks at Newsweek, they should now. What they’re doing is the very opposite of journalism.
I heard it said before that during the worst moments of combat, a ranger will mutter to themselves, “Well at least it ain’t ranger school.”
I have heard that too, with other variants referring to boot camp and basic training. One of the toughest men I ever knew went through Vietnam and never had nightmares about it, but occasionally he would wake up in a cold sweat finding himself back in the swamps doing ranger training again in his dreams.