Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Shawn Ryan Clips" channel.

Why would an SFAS Candidate be in Ranger School? Once you're selected, you're waiting on your Q-Course date. Nobody is sending you to Ranger School. If you're not Airborne-Qualified before attending Q, you need to graduate Airborne School first. Once a unit is losing you, they aren't going to spend the coin on sending you to Ranger School.
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We've been shielding for EMP since the 1960s after we discovered the effects from the atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific.
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@anonymousm9113 I remember my first Company formation. 1SG Howard barked out, "I need 2 volunteers!" I felt myself shoved forward out of my platoon formation along with another private from another platoon as some SPC4 said, "That means you, new dick!" "Congrats studs, you just got the 2 extra tickets for our Company rafting trip!" We went to these rapids in West Virginia, had boat-on-boat wars splashing and capsizing each other, just a great time on some genuine rapids. The only thing that really ruined it was I had an openly-racist black Squad Leader who was a total POS. He came in my room on weekends trying to play Drill Sergeant, and even tore up some of my materials from Church right after I had got back one Sunday. He would talk about violating and beheading our PSG's wife when we were standing in the bus in our blues between jobs, always trying to agitate some type of response from the EMs. Back then, H Co had Recon, Mortars, and Caisson Platoons. Recon was one of the best units I was ever in out of 3 Scout Platoons and LRSC in my career. We just trained and trained at AP Hill, did 8-day demo week, tons of IADs with more ammo, pyro, and smoke grenades than I ever saw until OIF. Of the 3 Scout Platoons I was in, that was the only one with a Sniper section where everyone was B4. They even sent 4 of the guys to Quantico USMC Scout Sniper Instructor Course. Recon Platoon basically got the Regiment's allotment for munitions, including AT4s and other Class V. We did a lot of OPFOR Augmentee or OPFOR duties on-call for other units, which was a blast. If they had kept that Platoon longer, I wouldn't have volunteered to go to Korea. Once we got notice it was being deactivated, I put in the papers and had orders within a week. Smithsonian was renovating the barracks as I left for Korea. Went to 1-506th on the DMZ in Korea which I loved, DROS'd to Fort Lewis in I Corps LRSC, which was a dream job for me, got deactivated, sent to 1-24 Inf Scouts in 1st BDE 25th on Lewis, then went to Bragg.
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@anonymousm9113 I was B Co 1994-95, then went to Recon in H Co 95-96 before I volunteered to go to the place they threatened everyone with, Korea. Out of 7 units I was in, 3rd Inf turned out to be one of the better ones just because the entire NCO leadership was 1980s guys who were Panama and ODS Vets, with Reagan-era training habits. I hated being in the line there, but once I got to Korea, realized it wasn't half bad.
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SF has a lot more mission sets and a variety of scenarios that are nuanced and hard to train for without focus. It's why they break down primary & secondary core mission sets to various ODAs in a Company and Bn, because it's too much to ask a single ODA to be proficient in SR, DA, UW, HR, Counter-Insurgency, etc. There are precious few SF units that train on DA like Ranger Regiment does, for example, because that isn't SF's focus. You could also be on an ODA that focuses on SR or UW, then get tasked operationally to do one of the other sets, whereas in Ranger Regiment, they know what they're going to be doing and train on a cycle for it year-after-year. When it comes to problem-solving, E-6s and E-7s in Ranger Regiment have way more hands-on experience with SUTs, terrain analysis, mission planning, rehearsals, IPB cycle, and MDMP. You typically need to be E-7 18F or E-8 18Z in SF to have that number of reps as mid-level NCOs in 75th have, and SF does a lot of planning, deployments, and exercises. A big complaint from SF guys is the layers of bureaucracy that handicap them when it comes to actionable freedom of maneuver. OPORDERs get analyzed by 5 different levels sometimes, to where guys had more freedom of maneuver and action when they were in a Line Infantry Recon Platoon as E-5s.
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BFT is about 3-4 Net-Centric systems old.
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There was no need to stash caches of food for SFAS when I did it. They issued out all your MREs that you would need for the 24 days, plus you sometimes got chow hall on Camp Mackall. The problem was, a lot of guys didn't have the self-discipline to plan their meals out, and burned through their MREs too soon. You also had to maintain 1 or 2 unopened MREs in your Ruck as part of the inspectable packing list, so if that was eaten, you were an integrity violation. I didn't even eat my alloted meals and had extras at the end of Team Week and the final ruck march. Coming from Infantry, Weapons Squad, Recon, and LRSC was more than enough prep for SFAS I needed.
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 @NoCoverCharge The vast majority of Ranger School graduates are and always have been enlisted men. Infantry Officers are expected to have their Tab, but it isn't necessary.
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When were you in 3rd Herd (TOG)?
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@anonymousm9113 Tell me more about your experiences with PEO Soldier if you will.
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@TheManInTheRing It made perfect sense to me.
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In Jewish culture and society of that day, a young man was considered cursed if he wasn't married by age 20, and he wouldn't be allowed around other people's children. The 4 Gospels tread very carefully due to the respect and reverence of that relationship, but it would be impossible for Jesus not to have been married. If you look at who was constantly with Him, who was at the last supper, and who He first revealed Himself to after He rose from the tomb, you get a clear recognition of who His wife was.
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We had the batteries in the vest with Land Warrior. They caught fire once at JRTC.
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@calebsone1630 If the HMDS is integral to a conformal visor, like we've been asking for now for 30 years, then it will be awesome. Especially in the area of far TGT SA across surface & air threats. The main demand is to get Image Intensification Tube bulk off the head for NODs. He's talking about a fully-integrated system with TGT designate boxes, interleaved tracking from all sensor nodes, cooperative targeting & tracking, and computational-assisted fire control. I've had designs for this for 20 years, but I was focusing on headset/ear pro conformal integration, armor/visor integration, and embedded night vision using digital signals processing and micro electro-oprical apertures. Processing power and latency weren't there 20 years ago, but it's there now. The only working systems in the digital NV area I've seen are in aerospace on the new Typhoon HMDS.
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Yup. Total abortion in form factor and lack of systems integration. Exposed cables, assymetric bulk/weight. Microsoft sucks in pretty much everything they touch.
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@MartialDuartist Land Nav was amazing with Land Warrior in 2000. 100% GO rate for a whole Platoon on the EIB Land Nav course, done in 45 minutes. You just watch yourself running on the Helmet-Mounted Display from point to point.
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