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Explain this if you can bullzeye
Harleeman1030
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On 08-22-2002 you said i am on a ranger contract...Then on 09-05-2002 you said i singed my contract today......I might be a little slow as you have said on here but how do you do this .I am starting to join others here and say your full of it (this all started with you calling me stupid)...AND IF YOUR ONLY 18 QUIT TELLING TALL STORIES WHERE YOU CALL SOMEONE BOY.....
quote: Posted - 09/05/2002 : 17:02:41
Just got back from MEPS. I signed my contract and took the oath today.
I asked for 11-Bravo with Airborne school and RIP guaranteed. I ended up with 11-X-ray (because they've consolidated the original three 11-series MOS's into one), with Airborne school and an automatic attachment to the 75th Ranger Regiment guaranteed. Apparently, they've decided to allow Ranger-track recruits a few months of hands-on training before they actually make them go through RIP, ostensibly to bolster the number of graduates.
The absolute earliest they could get me out to Basic was late January, which irritated me quite a bit, but I wasnt about to look the gift horse in the mouth.
I'll see if I cant do something about my departure date. But other than that, it was a fantastic and productive day
quote:Posted - 08/22/2002 : 19:51:39
First off: If you go into an Army recruiting office and use the phrase "Semper Fi, Do or Die", they're all gonna laugh at you. It's the motto of the Marine Corps.
Secondly: I applaud your interest. I'm on a Ranger-track contract myself. I'll tell you the basics, and if you've got any more questions, you can ask Idsman.
Just for the basics, you need to be medically and criminally qualified (have a clean record). Then, because of your choice of carerr, you WILL need the following: to be willing to sign up for the maximum term (6 years), to be willing to sign up for a combat MOS (probably 11-B if you want the best chance), and be possessing of a high ASVAB score (VERY important).
You chose a difficult path, and slots are highly limited.
I'd advise you to think LONG and think HARD about why you are making this choice. Infantry training may be tough, but Ranger training is designed where only those who want it worse than anything in the world will be able to hack it. When your physical body wants to quit (and it WILL), you need to have that ability to suck it up and soldier on. You wont get there unless you want it so badly you can taste it.
If after all that soul-searching you still want it, then go through all of the paperwork and prepare for battle with the career counselor at MEPS. If you can convince him, then you'll be done with at least the first part of your trials and tribulations.
Do your best. That's all you can do.
I did an edit in case you don't remember when you called someone a kidquote: Posted - 09/04/2002 : 11:36:11
The game is indeed fun. But it makes me slightly nervous, to be honest.
As I'm sure Idsman can corroborate on, you have no idea how many kids get an idea in their head from a video game or a movie and go tromping down to the recruiting station to sign the papers.
Most of them end up hating it and wanting out, which creates vast headaches for those in their company and the Army personnel who have to deal with them.
I was just talking to a kid online in the goarmy.com chat room last week who said he had seen Blackhawk Down and had made up his mind he was gonna be a Ranger. I pointed out that the training was very difficult. He insisted that he knew all about it, and played America's Army all the time, and based on his scores, "I'll be the best they've ever seen!".
The scary thing was, I know how hungry the recruiters are for new 11-Bravo recruits. But then again, having to deal with the shell-shocked wannabes a few months down the road isnt gonna be their problem.
Harleeman1030@aol.com
Be quiet honey i know what i am doing ...
!!!!!KaBOOM!!!!! quote:
Edited by - harleeman1030 on 09/07/2002 02:03:24
quote: Posted - 09/05/2002 : 17:02:41
Just got back from MEPS. I signed my contract and took the oath today.
I asked for 11-Bravo with Airborne school and RIP guaranteed. I ended up with 11-X-ray (because they've consolidated the original three 11-series MOS's into one), with Airborne school and an automatic attachment to the 75th Ranger Regiment guaranteed. Apparently, they've decided to allow Ranger-track recruits a few months of hands-on training before they actually make them go through RIP, ostensibly to bolster the number of graduates.
The absolute earliest they could get me out to Basic was late January, which irritated me quite a bit, but I wasnt about to look the gift horse in the mouth.
I'll see if I cant do something about my departure date. But other than that, it was a fantastic and productive day
quote:Posted - 08/22/2002 : 19:51:39
First off: If you go into an Army recruiting office and use the phrase "Semper Fi, Do or Die", they're all gonna laugh at you. It's the motto of the Marine Corps.
Secondly: I applaud your interest. I'm on a Ranger-track contract myself. I'll tell you the basics, and if you've got any more questions, you can ask Idsman.
Just for the basics, you need to be medically and criminally qualified (have a clean record). Then, because of your choice of carerr, you WILL need the following: to be willing to sign up for the maximum term (6 years), to be willing to sign up for a combat MOS (probably 11-B if you want the best chance), and be possessing of a high ASVAB score (VERY important).
You chose a difficult path, and slots are highly limited.
I'd advise you to think LONG and think HARD about why you are making this choice. Infantry training may be tough, but Ranger training is designed where only those who want it worse than anything in the world will be able to hack it. When your physical body wants to quit (and it WILL), you need to have that ability to suck it up and soldier on. You wont get there unless you want it so badly you can taste it.
If after all that soul-searching you still want it, then go through all of the paperwork and prepare for battle with the career counselor at MEPS. If you can convince him, then you'll be done with at least the first part of your trials and tribulations.
Do your best. That's all you can do.
I did an edit in case you don't remember when you called someone a kidquote: Posted - 09/04/2002 : 11:36:11
The game is indeed fun. But it makes me slightly nervous, to be honest.
As I'm sure Idsman can corroborate on, you have no idea how many kids get an idea in their head from a video game or a movie and go tromping down to the recruiting station to sign the papers.
Most of them end up hating it and wanting out, which creates vast headaches for those in their company and the Army personnel who have to deal with them.
I was just talking to a kid online in the goarmy.com chat room last week who said he had seen Blackhawk Down and had made up his mind he was gonna be a Ranger. I pointed out that the training was very difficult. He insisted that he knew all about it, and played America's Army all the time, and based on his scores, "I'll be the best they've ever seen!".
The scary thing was, I know how hungry the recruiters are for new 11-Bravo recruits. But then again, having to deal with the shell-shocked wannabes a few months down the road isnt gonna be their problem.
Harleeman1030@aol.com
Be quiet honey i know what i am doing ...
!!!!!KaBOOM!!!!! quote:
Edited by - harleeman1030 on 09/07/2002 02:03:24
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And also i am 6'4" 230 pounds and ran 10 miles everyday until the doc made me start walking till i have back surgery.( i am posting a pic of me tomorrow morning on here)..I also do pushups and sit ups everyday...And when i am home i stay off this thing and spend time with my kids so you can not pull your little chip on sholder and no life on me.....
COME ON YOU WUSSIE EXPLAIN
Harleeman1030@aol.com
Be quiet honey i know what i am doing ...
!!!!!KaBOOM!!!!!
Edited by - harleeman1030 on 09/07/2002 03:22:26
Harleeman1030@aol.com
Be quiet honey i know what i am doing ...
!!!!!KaBOOM!!!!!
has a big strapping lad like you ever been in ANY u.s. service?
just curious.
barto
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He Dog - Good point though. My post was to solicit facts from both sides.
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Edited by - Boomerang on 09/07/2002 11:15:27
ROFLMFAO!
Masterful stroke, sir.
You know what is equally embarassing? Listening to people who serve or have served in the armed forces sit around with their manhood out on the table trying to prove whose is bigger. If you've been there and done that then you don't need to talk about it because there are others who will do the talking for you. Your leadership abilities will be reflected in the manner that you have impacted your peers, seniors and subordinates alike. Just because you serve or have served does not give you a license to be an idiot nor does it exempt you from rebuke when you are acting like one. There are plenty of respectable vets here. Wear it if it fits.
With respect to the phrase "I'm on a Ranger-track contract myself" line, let's break it down. You don't just walk into a recruiting station and enlist. It is a process. It used to take me a few weeks to get some recruits through all the hoops before I could get them down to MEPS to enlist. In many cases I will know BEFORE they go to MEPS what they will and will not qualify for and what MOS's have openings and will be likely to have openings before they go to MEPS. I talked with Bullzeye for over an hour before he made this post. I knew that he would qualify for the Airborne Ranger contract and I KNEW, from my experience as a recruiter and the contact that I have had with my recruiting station while attending BNCOC here in Missouri, that there would be Airborne Ranger contracts available during the timeframe that Bullzeye was talking about enlisting. If you have a young person who is fired up and has a dream and has goals about being a Ranger then you encourage that dream. Judging from Bullzeye's test scores and the day of the month that he enlisted, there was about a 99.99% chance that he would get a Ranger contract. I can sit and pick apart anything that anyone says to reflect an interpretation that was not intended. Is it not possible that Bullzeye was trying to say that he was on track to get a Ranger contract? Hell, I do a lot of my posting late at night and I get up at 4am every day. I know that a lot of things that I post here don't always make sense nor are they always grammatically correct. I know that Bullzeye has a lot of p*ss and vinegar in him and I know that he's shot off at the mouth as many of us have done in the past.
P*ss on them and prove them wrong Bullzeye.
Edited by - idsman75 on 09/07/2002 13:13:27
It is easy to verify, after all. Idsman strikes me as being honest.
Bull, to get thru basic, airborne and rip in one piece, more or less you need to start working out NOW!!!
Running is great, but may I suggest gettin a ruck and some boots and do some humping. Start off light with the weight and increase it as your times improve over a measured course, say 12 miles. Increase your upper body strength.
Never been a Ranger, But I think SF qualifies me to give a little advice.
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