Dead LAST on the Darby Queen at Ranger School

In this video, I cover the first few days of the Darby Phase of Ranger School.
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[@artfulcord]

watching these videos through makes me think that (so far) the worst part of ranger school really seems like the beginning, where the main purpose is to weed out who gets to move on, and who gets sent home, then afterwards things normalize and become more bearable

[@kathybell4878]

My son just graduated from Ranger school with his tab. He is way too tired to give me these amazing details so thank you for creating this content! Love the insight!

[@AustinCaroe]

I'd be interested to hear if he thinks that my stories still accurately describe the school. I graduated in 2012.

[@kathybell4878]

@@AustinCaroe I hope that he'll have the time to listen down the road. He's off to Airborne next!

[@davidparmly8828]

@@kathybell4878 Class 4-83 says "Welcome!" Thank you for giving our nation a man such as your son.

[@kathybell4878]

@@davidparmly8828 I've entered a whole new world of gratefulness for all of you beautiful soldiers! Proud. Grateful. Emotional rollercoaster for sure. :) Thank YOU! #RLTW

[@davidparmly8828]

@@kathybell4878 Oh, BTW, tell him I went thru Ranger School as a "Leg" too. He caught a lot of abuse for being one, I'll bet, but he also avoided many chances for an injury! He is a special guy in a school full of special guys!

[@davidparmly8828]

Got a Go-Max for the first graded-weighted OPORD at Darby. I can still se the whole squad, sitting on the grey, painted benches in the big metal building - all grinning at me. We were the Leg Squad and City Week had trimmed the slack out of us. I nailed the order, sure, but it's because the Squad worked to gather to build the sand table, coordinate the supplies, rehearsals, etc. The graded patrol was a reconnaissance of a road junction at the top of a long dirt road. I was on the recon team and low-crawled out to the road to test the firmness whith my demo knife, check the width, etc. The RI was absolutely baffled when I rendered a good, cavalryman's report, with all the things a recon of a road should include. "What the hell is all this 'bog-hold' shit, Ranger?" Sigh. Can't expect a light infantryman to care about that kind of stuff.

[@AustinCaroe]

Haha! Classic Cav Scout!