It doesn’t seem that long ago. The memory of pulling away from the brown fence that surrounded the 3rd Ranger Battalion for the final time is still as Continue Reading
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A Ranger in Vietnam Remembers
Some of the Team Leaders were more "aggressive" than others. For some reason, Team 4 always had a Team Leader the "aggressive" ones called NUTS. Of Continue Reading
I Sat at Your Gravesite
by J.R. Coleman I went and sat at your gravesite... I couldn't bring myself to go to the wake and viewing, didn't feel right. Was like, that body... a Continue Reading
A Note On Brotherhood
by Kasey Pipitt I joined the Army on January 30, 2008. I arrived at 2nd Ranger Battalion in 2009, did three deployments, and was wounded by a grenade Continue Reading
Stop Thanking Me for My Service
We are thanked for our service numerous times a day. Sometimes we don’t even know how anyone knew to thank us. Maybe it’s our demeanor, maybe it’s our Continue Reading
An Army Ranger’s Perspective On Happiness
by Kasey Pipitt, Army Ranger Veteran When I look in the mirror, I see a man who doesn’t know what he’s looking at. A man who has never truly known. A Continue Reading
Fatherhood: What Ranger Regiment Taught Me
by Kevin Newhard Fatherhood is a chance to mold this Nation as well as the world. People often look to athletes or famous people to be the heroes for Continue Reading
Ranger Medic: The Drive for Perfection
by Andrew D. Fisher and Leo Jenkins There is a certain group of men that have to live with a feeling of guilt when they lose a patient. I am not Continue Reading
The Death of a Ranger
by former Ranger Johnny B. So, you heard a Ranger died today What a tragic waste, you said That he should die in a foreign land With so much of life Continue Reading
“Empty Chairs”: By a Fellow Ranger
This first appeared in The Havok Journal on December 27, 2018, by a Ranger who wishes to remain anonymous, who was moved to write after the spate of Continue Reading
The Ranger Way: Earning My Combat Scroll
by James Webb It was my 3rd mission that I bagged my first bad guy. Right out of the bird, I knew we were running up to the top of a hill and just Continue Reading
From War to Plow: A Ranger’s Transition
The mountains and land of our founding father’s defined James Webb’s life from the very beginning. Born in Madison, VA, what he calls his own piece of Continue Reading