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