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by Flesh Thorn
June 6th, 2004, 9:27 am
Forum: Ranger Transportation
Topic: The most widely used Ranger transpo is......................
Replies: 30
Views: 36219

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This was the most widely used Ranger Transportation that I remember......Damn steel in the boots would always crack and start making a clicking sound when I walked.
by Flesh Thorn
June 6th, 2004, 5:31 am
Forum: Close Combat
Topic: Steel, killing, for the use of...
Replies: 16
Views: 13437

I am not very keen on the idea of knife fighting, but the bayonet is a different story. Combined with the reach and mass of the rifle I am confident that I could inflict some lethal damage in close combat. In the words of CSM Purdy, Boxing, wrestling, and bayonet fighting are not antiquated. MOUT, T...
by Flesh Thorn
June 6th, 2004, 5:12 am
Forum: About Army Physical Training
Topic: Some new body weight exercises....
Replies: 3
Views: 3442

Pavel Tsatouline at http://www.dragondoor.com also has some very good stuff. He is a former Soviet Spetnaz trainer who is now an American citizen and doing contract work for several goverment agencies,SWAT and the USMC. I have exchanged some e-mails with him before and he is very helpful. He has som...
by Flesh Thorn
June 6th, 2004, 4:52 am
Forum: About RASP
Topic: will i be agble to send/recieve letters
Replies: 17
Views: 7331

no, it would interfere with the brainwashing process.....Just Kidding

YES,You can recieve/send mail while in the Army,even RIP
by Flesh Thorn
June 5th, 2004, 2:15 pm
Forum: About Army Physical Training
Topic: Some new body weight exercises....
Replies: 3
Views: 3442

Some new body weight exercises....

I have heard of these exercises before, but have only done the neck bridge in high school wrestling. If someone tries these let me know how they work for you.

http://www.testosterone.net/articles/153combat2.html
by Flesh Thorn
June 3rd, 2004, 11:50 am
Forum: About RASP
Topic: Prepping tips for the RIP road march(es)
Replies: 73
Views: 81402

Most did not wear any.
by Flesh Thorn
June 3rd, 2004, 7:20 am
Forum: About RASP
Topic: Prepping tips for the RIP road march(es)
Replies: 73
Views: 81402

Don't wear underwear during the roadmarch ! I cut mine off while still marching.
by Flesh Thorn
June 2nd, 2004, 11:22 am
Forum: Introduction Archive
Topic: MP who doesn't enjoy the army Introduction
Replies: 29
Views: 9339

After I exited the 75th I hated the Army. I joined the Rangers not the fucking leg Army, but there I was. It took a while to get a new positive attitude. I almost re-enlisted and even after I ETS'd I almost went back in. Give it a while pacman and try not to spread the bitterness. Everything sucks a...
by Flesh Thorn
May 31st, 2004, 7:38 am
Forum: 75th Ranger Regiment Public Forum
Topic: Ranger Poser?
Replies: 43
Views: 15134

I bought one of those koool black t-shirts when I was in Airborne School that had the big gold RANGER on the front. I had just got to RIP and we were getting ready to go to town and I put that t-shirt on and out the barracks I went. A pre-ranger student saw me first and was so kind as to correct me ...
by Flesh Thorn
May 27th, 2004, 10:28 am
Forum: Recruitment Process
Topic: a question about another mos and Rangers
Replies: 3
Views: 2433

Rangers would he still do all the high speed combat things that Rangers do or would he just do his regular office job, because i would hate for him to get up to his Ranger Batt and think he's gonna do all the high speed stuff but sit in an office all day I don't know how things may have changed due...
by Flesh Thorn
May 26th, 2004, 10:33 am
Forum: Post Service Issues
Topic: MY DISABILITY RE-EVAL
Replies: 7
Views: 4326

Should I go in there and whine like a bitch?
Then they will think you are from 2nd Batt....
by Flesh Thorn
May 24th, 2004, 11:11 am
Forum: Personal Gear
Topic: Looking for a Ruck (Maybe MOLLE)
Replies: 13
Views: 7564

SoldierAgent505, I got a Cheaper than Dirt catalog in the mail and they have the MOLLE packs and a MOLLE type foreign made pack that , to me, looks like what you have desribed.
by Flesh Thorn
May 21st, 2004, 12:25 pm
Forum: The Mosh Pit
Topic: Swoff's assignment
Replies: 15
Views: 5039

They are, as you pointed out Ranger Flesh Thorn, Lapps. As a kind of an ironic fact, they (Lapps) got a quite a big territory way up in the north of Norway, Sweden, Finland and even Russia. However, the biggest concentration of Lapps is in the Norwegian capitol Oslo Swoff, are they like our Inuit p...
by Flesh Thorn
May 21st, 2004, 12:18 pm
Forum: Recruitment Process
Topic: IRR Activations
Replies: 1
Views: 1690

I got a call right before Desert Storm from a Reserve Recruiter telling me that IRRs were getting ready to be activated and that by joining a reserve unit I would be able to choose the one I wanted to deploy with. I cut my long ass hair to military specs, quit wearing peace beads, quit my hippie-ass...

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