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Welcome to ArmyRanger.com, Beetle1. Thanks for your service to our great country! Did you happen to be in Class 3/71? I graduated in October of '69 in Class 3/70. Seems to me that there is someone else here that was in Class 3/71.

I cannot remember my RC number. I graduated Ranger School October ...

ZoneIV wrote:

Jim wrote:Wow!

X2.....you certainly did a lot in 2 1/2 years. I wasn't aware that they would pick people out of AIT and send them immediately to NCO School.

Must have been a real shortage of noncoms in 1970.

Jim wrote:Wow, brothe. Please tell us more!

Not much more to it. Have had little to no contact with any of my ranger bretheren after 40+ years. It's past time to reconnect with some folks I highly esteem.

My apologies, the original intro was rather weak so here's a little more detail. I enlisted September 1969 and went to Ft. Jackson, SC for Basic and AIT. Afterwards I went to Ft. Benning for NCO School (NCOCC class 41-70 I think) and graduated July of 1970. This was followed by Jump School and from ...

Service 1969-72
Ranger School grad. Oct. 1970
P/75 Rangers 70-71 (RVN)
A/75 Rangers 72 (US)