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choirboy · Post by **choirboy** » October 31st, 2005, 4:00 pm

Speedracer wrote:Got mine in 1980
had to do the old hands on SQT also along with the EIB
That sucked

When did they stop requiring a hands-on SQT, Ranger Speedracer?
I enlisted in '86, and I cannot remember taking one, just the annual written exam.

McD · Post by **McD** » October 31st, 2005, 5:26 pm

It was a Muther back in the 70's.. of course everything was harder back then! :D

B 2/75 · Post by **B 2/75** » October 31st, 2005, 8:02 pm

Jim wrote:Don't know what the standards are today, but earning the EIB was a bear back in the day.

I agree wholeheartedly.

RRDTm3 wrote:EIB................(E)verybody (I)n (B)attalion gets them Smile

Now that was bullshit. I for one took the EIB five times, and still don't wear one. Made it through the SQT hands on to the EIB roundout stations every time, and got knocked out for one thing or another each and every time. One year is was call for and adjust fire, another it was the movement under fire (so many failed that lane that year that they retested it, but I was in RS at the time

Did five ruck marches, everything. They gave no slack at all. Maybe five to ten EIBs per Company were awarded each go around. Having an EIB in BN back then was something. Definately EARNED.

fireranger · Post by **fireranger** » October 31st, 2005, 9:19 pm

I got mine at 2/75 as a PFC and spent the next three years grading on Noble Hill.

You want to know how to piss off a SL and make an enemy for life?

Double NOGO one of his guys at the LAW station.

Speedracer · Post by **Speedracer** » November 1st, 2005, 10:55 am

choirboy wrote:
Speedracer wrote:Got mine in 1980
had to do the old hands on SQT also along with the EIB
That sucked
When did they stop requiring a hands-on SQT, Ranger Speedracer?
I enlisted in '86, and I cannot remember taking one, just the annual written exam.

Dont remember the exact time when it changed but if i guessed i would say around 82-83