Ranger School Class 05-08

Mottsauce · Post by **Mottsauce** » May 2nd, 2008, 9:10 pm

Well I graduated today from class 05-08. After an extended stay in Darby I finally finished! It was a beautiful day out at Victory Pond and my Dad came down from California for the ceremony. After the Ceremony we went to 4 Winds and I ate a Ranger burger with fries and sweet tea in about 5 minutes.

Mountains was the worst and Florida was my favorite. They've added Kiowa, Spectre, and Chinook support to Florida, so it's pretty awesome to use those assets on your patrols (we didn't get to use AC-130s but some did).

I'm still pretty sleepy and hungry, but I'm really happy to have finally earned my tab.

Pictures to follow in the next few days.

Any questions from the guys about to go?

RTO · Post by **RTO** » May 2nd, 2008, 9:19 pm

Congratulations Sir!

kageryu311 · Post by **kageryu311** » May 2nd, 2008, 10:54 pm

Mottsauce wrote:Mountains was the worst and Florida was my favorite. They've added Kiowa, Spectre, and Chinook support to Florida, so it's pretty awesome to use those assets on your patrols (we didn't get to use AC-130s but some did).

Hey congratulations. Did you do the Chinooks on the last two air assault patrols in Florida?

IDon'tCare · Post by **IDon'tCare** » May 3rd, 2008, 3:37 am

Congratulations.

RRDTm3 · Post by **RRDTm3** » May 3rd, 2008, 9:02 am

I was there to see all 241 of you cherry fucks graduate. Yeah you read it right, 241

Jim · Post by **Jim** » May 3rd, 2008, 9:06 am

RRDTm3 wrote:I was there to see all 241 of you cherry fucks graduate. Yeah you read it right, 241

Damn, that's a big class!

Well done earning your tab.

Mottsauce · Post by **Mottsauce** » May 3rd, 2008, 9:18 am

Thanks for the congratulations everyone.

Tater Nuts wrote:how do 241 get enough leadership positions and patrols to be evaluated ? "OK your the PL get your men squared away and move them 20 meters north and we will rotate leadership positions"

Sometimes they gave us one look, sometimes they gave us 4 (like the dude in Florida who got his 4th patrol, of Florida, and his go the last day).

rgrpuck · Post by **rgrpuck** » May 3rd, 2008, 9:20 am

Damn sir congradulations.
Been a long time sense you were a cadet at Jackson a few summers ago.

RRDTm3 · Post by **RRDTm3** » May 3rd, 2008, 9:30 am

Mottsauce wrote: sometimes they gave us 4 (like the dude in Florida who got his 4th patrol, of Florida, and his go the last day).

That was one of the dudes who got 3 previous No-Go's in the Fla but with one go was deemed tabable......................i just made that word up, fuck am good!

The crowd on hand to see the grad with pushed all the way down to the base of the tower.

Fella's it is truly only about #'s these days. Not to say that Mottsauce ain't a bad mutherfocker though.

Steadfast · Post by **Steadfast** » May 3rd, 2008, 12:50 pm

Congrats Ranger & welcome to the Ranger brotherhood.

PM inbound.

Ranger Bill · Post by **Ranger Bill** » May 3rd, 2008, 2:42 pm

Congratulations! In the Stone Age, we didn't even start with 241.

rgrking · Post by **rgrking** » May 3rd, 2008, 3:54 pm

Congrats Sir.

kageryu311 · Post by **kageryu311** » May 3rd, 2008, 4:57 pm

His class was in RAP week when I was graduating. They started with something like 400+ Ranger students and ended it with around 300.

PocketKings · Post by **PocketKings** » May 5th, 2008, 5:47 am

Congrats Mott. Pretty cool your Dad was able to share in that event. One of my favorite memories is doing beer tasting shots with my Pops in the Cannon Pub after graduation.

A 2LT with a tab is truly a dangerous thing to behold.

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