Making The Jump From Ranger Regiment To The Unit w/ Jamey Caldwell

[@hillbillyrecovery4345]

I wanted to be a ranger so bad. From the time I was a little kid. When it came time to sign up I let a damn girl talk me out of it. By the time we broke up I was making amazing money for a 20 year old. So it was out of my head. Then by 05 it was back in my head. On my way the rct office I got into a horrible wreck. Almost didn't make it. After that it took 10 years to get where I could walk without any type of support. I tell this story for younger ppl. Go after your dream immediately don't wait. Don't put it off.

[@sumtingwong8768]

Isn't it the case that most of those guys just sit around and twiddle their thumbs, they have to fight for missions, money, training, etc. Sounds like its not like they portray once you get on the inside, maybe I'm off though, entirely possible.

[@brian3786]

Thank you sir. I’m 18 and in a similar predicament. Already scored 95 on my asvab and still gotta do my physical tests. Going to try and ship out in September after I come back from Mexico in august. I have a wife over there and was considering settling down and building a stable life but I don’t want to regret it later

[@hillbillyrecovery4345]

@@brian3786 wait on marriage. I promise you. You don't realize how much you will change by the time your 25. If this is you dream chase it first. After marriage or a kid everything that you want doesn't even exist anymore. A man puts his family above all so that's why I say go after your dream first you have the rest of your life for the rest. Good luck.

[@hermanhenderson966]

@@brian3786 dont get married look into divorce stats and what men go through. You’ll thank yourself.

[@sourrrrrrrr]

@@sumtingwong8768 I've never been in but the 75th has been deployed constantly for over 7000 days and counting, (Although they are broke up between 3 and now 4 battalions) training so much that one unit (I don't know what size, probably a battalion) fired over 600,000 rounds in training over the course of 3-4 weeks, deployed so often that some don't consider you a real Ranger unless you've been on at least 1 deployment with the 75th, and the most HVT capture/kill missions in the entire military. Also you are supposed to go to Ranger school after getting in the 75th but many actually just get deployed THEN Ranger school. From what I've heard, you are describing the normal army, not the 75th.

[@billlawrence8520]

Team House, thanks for breaking down your long form interviews, into bite-sized chunks. Easier to watch and grasp. Thanks .

[@Zooka208]

I had a CO be selected almost 20 years ago.. always wondered how his life turned out. Great channel, ty for videos

[@hereticlife2546]

If you remember his name there’s so many of these guys out there you should be able to get a hold of some of them. If he made it surely someone knows of him

[@TheDHM3007]

Lol Guy literally went ghost

[@sumtingwong8768]

Do you know how much action they get, is it really just sitting around looking cool and training but never really being used. What's your estimate 80% don't do jack sh*t?

[@anthonyberardinelli8767]

@@sumtingwong8768 Delta and other tier 1 units have a continuous rotation i believe and what I mean by that, you always have a teams training, teams rotating back from tours and usually a team resting for a short period. Because of what they do, I doubt they have a lot of down time but I'm not sure because I was never in the military

[@sumtingwong8768]

@@anthonyberardinelli8767 you sound like you know a fair bit, of what you know, who gets the most direct action, Rangers? why I say rangers is because they seem to only have that as their mission purpose.

[@fredericklockard3854]

I served as a support guy in 10th Group at Carson and it was the best assignment of my 20 year career. True professionals. They treated all of us support guys with respect and taught me a lot. I have been in other units where they treated support people as less than them and that is a shame.

[@nickgerr1991]

Ayyyy I've spent time at Carson this past year, if you've ever seen a lone marsoc dude chillin with 10th, that was me😅

[@fredericklockard3854]

@@nickgerr1991 doubtful bro. I was there likely when you were just a little dude 😂.

[@nickgerr1991]

@@fredericklockard3854 damn lmaoooo, I just noticed you said 20 years...damn, I'm not even a quarter of a century old ahahaha

[@fredericklockard3854]

@@nickgerr1991 oh hell. So I was at Carson when you were not even a gleam in your daddy’s eye. Good stuff! God bless you Marine.

[@jaycee6777]

Was with the 3rd ACR at Carson , mostly doing QRF cuz Civilians took my job lol.. Was a Great Job in many ways and a lil tiring foreal.. 10th Group is Legit ! Wanted to join them or try out ,, but politics came into play and was forced out ,, but support/forward units all family risking there lives daily.. I sometimes have the conversation and ask people if they would rather be in an Abrams Tank or a Fuel Tanker driving around the desert ? Lol. I would chose the tank personally,, but f that close quarter life also ,,, Qrf is good in the Cav.. God bless thanks for your service fam

[@georgecoull1883]

Thank you gentlemen for telling these stories and keeping the memories of the fallen alive and letting the heroes tell their own stories. Mr Parke , Mr Murphy You are doing a great service to the country! From the bottom of my heart thank you!

[@Bobby223boucher]

Awesome video. I had always assumed Jamey was a 11B with the Ranger Regiment before going to selection. He’s a badass operator and fisherman

[@Hashtag6B9]

coming from an 11b, even though you're an enabler in a SOF unit, you still deserve the same respect as a 11/18 series Operator.

[@motiman2466]

absolutely agreed. I'm glad someone said it

[@G4x5da]

He was a operator

[@Bobby223boucher]

@@G4x5dayou didn’t watch the video? He clearly states he was support in the regiment. Which is why he doubted himself some. Once he passed selection and went to Delta then yes he was an operator

[@G4x5da]

@@Bobby223boucher so he was a operator yes?

[@metallicknight2]

Jamey, I hear you about Savanah. I got to my Engineer unit at Stewart in April of '99. I met some of your Ranger batt guys over on Stewart many times. Great dudes, tbh. After we got back from Bright Star, we did a few JRX with the Rangers. Glad to see you made it, and healthy, brother.

[@jonosay854]

I lived in the Hinesville Inn for 3 months when i first arrived in Dec 99. That town sucked!! Was a Kmart and a BBQ restaurant lol

[@hoyavp2236]

Thank you for your service, Brother.

[@abovethenoise1718]

I think Sean "buck" Rogers said at the best, when he was talking about how he got recycled on ranger assessment selection program and he had a choice to go to Special forces with the green berets, and called it a gentleman's course. At least when compared to most everything Ranger and before.

[@vitigaymer1053]

I'm pretty sure Sean meant the Instructors aren't hounding/hazing you in SFAS like they do in RASP.

[@mr.nobody68]

Had I known then what I know now, I would have tried to go to RASP to become a Ranger. I would have failed and been dropped/kicked from the course but, I still would have given it my all

[@patrickdevine1085]

So many people forget that regiment have many MOS fields which without the regiment and the battalions don’t work.

[@LvoZee05]

Might I suggest a good guest or guests. Sean Rodgers(10th group, author, fng academy), Daniel Burnett(1/75 and owner of Train Like a Ranger), and Michael Golembesky(former MARSOC, author)

[@LvoZee05]

Dagger 22 is Golembesky's book. It is phenomenal

[@michealsealy1908]

Sean book is amazing loved it read it a couple times

[@songen1042]

I want Clyde Carmody or Isaiah Burkhart, both of which Jack served with

[@LvoZee05]

@@songen1042 they were on the team room on sofrep before jack went on his own. Definitely like that suggestion

[@GageCahoon]

Yeahhhh 2nd vote for Dan

[@GODISPOWER777]

You are the people like myself who can not complete a mission without your support. 11B or not we all need to work as a team and get it done.

[@pauldarling330]

Felt that over train. Trained my ass off for ranger school, got a stress fracture 1 month out Stopped all training. Showed up and first hard ruck it came back. Then 2 more weeks limping along until cadre finally dropped me.

[@chrishandsome4267]

It’s all good brother, you gave it your best shot. I was in the unit for 8 years & it was the best time of my life but also the worst.

[@russellcoight9376]

@@chrishandsome4267 Yeah I was in the seal delta unit aswell with the marines from 75th battalion ranger recon aswell

[@jake8074]

At fifty-two... I can tell you that if this is a dream of yours don`t let an injury or ANYTHING else stop you! Not giving it another try after getting hurt right out of the gate has haunted me EVRY SINGLE DAY OF MY ADULT LIFE! No pity party here, just advice from an old fart who still dreams and yearns for what could`ve... what should have been. My very best to any and all that have either served our country, and to those who aspire to! Get after it!

[@DonnyBrook762]

Great video, this gives hope to all my 92Gs in Battalion.

[@v.german11b]

Amazing 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@bladez4200]

Wow SF is crazy how you can make it to a elite unit just to be a support guy , this guy had to put up with abuse by the 11bravo guys and also had to relieve there needs he was probably hazed badly . I’m glad he made it to delta to show them who the man was .

[@harveysanchez6993]

Probably not hazed but probably just not seen as an idol or adequate for special operation combat for the team. And wasn't SF but a ranger in ranger battalion.

[@ArmorOfZeus]

Support guys are most certainly hazed. Everyone gets hazed in Battalion.

[@somethinganything4864]

@@harveysanchez6993 batt boys are known to haze quite a bit

[@harveysanchez6993]

@@somethinganything4864 well hazing was done a lot but for fun as I have heard that it was a rite of passage and to build stronger team bonds as well as to check guys when they get out of play not just to bully someone because they don’t like them.

[@arighteousname5882]

In the regiment you're treated like hammered dog shit (hazed) until you get your ranger tab.

[@dalekallio902]

I love it when the guy that is right is invited back. Makes too much sense to do it.

[@Punchacow]

Yep

[@zibabird]

Thank you.

[@michaelvazquez3492]

I served for two years in Fort Lewis (now JLMB)--NOT in 2/75...and it is one of the best places to serve in the Army.

[@Rico11b]

Support guys are awesome. You can't win a war without them. I never talked shit or fucked with support guys. Just cause they weren't Infantry doesn't mean that they aren't contributing to the cause. I'll put up a well trained Infantry Rifle Company against a small team any day. It's the Infantry Rifle Companies that take over countries and win wars. Take 82nd ABN Div and 101st for example. They are comprised of lots of Infantry Rifle Companies, and they can kick the shit out of anything that moves. Hell it can even be a "dirty leg" Infantry unit, they still kick some major ass too.

[@servaaslabs]

it's a great point.. I think it's a huge misconception that if you aren't in a tier 1 or "high speed" infantry unit that it must be really cushy and easy. I spent two years in a mech unit and we ran 5-8 miles three times a week or more and regularly rucked up for 20-25 mile road marches .. and our field exercises were no sleep high intensity.. some may read what I just wrote and scoff but being a grunt in the US Army isn't an easy job anywhere. They run you like hell.

[@slmjake]

Love your guys comments! I snuck into Ranger School as a dirty nasty leg and a log guy on top of that! Spent jump night guarding weapons and no pre jump rest then I led the leg company on a long road March to the drop zone to get them oriented and hand over the company lead position to the next guy in the bull pen. I laugh looking back at it all! Boy did they pile on the crap with us. I tolerated the Ranger Instructors giving me crap but when a fellow Ranget student and USMA grad called me a nasty leg and told me to carry his crap he and a couple ofnother students went down like bowling pins when I knocked their asses out.

[@mattpage2228]

Look up JRTC rotation 3-99 in call. I think it was the third rotation..I was TL in the town house mentioned. steamrolled em.

[@dow168]

Love these shows. But is it not possible get good quality audio going? Sometimes it is impossibly bad.

[@cej3940]

There is nothing more I want to do more in life than to work in the ISA/Gray Fox I'd learn any languages they ask of me, do any high endurance physical feat they want me to do, compete to go to any hypercompetitive school needed to make me a good candidate Even if I could meet one of those operators and get to really talk to them, I could probably die pretty happy

[@nickjohnson710]

Then why don't you go for it !

[@ddd.4243]

No one cares

[@phoenixknight8837]

This channel has been aceing it!

[@NStephenson2022]

Going to RASP Jan 13th, can’t wait to suck!

[@TobiA0000]

Amazing. What was his original MOS?

[@OttoMatieque]

"injured" is frequently mentioned in the different special ops selections. what does that mean? It would be nice to hear more about the injuries that get in people's way to completion. I assume the common injuries are things like tendonitis and ligament sprains or a significant bruise to a key muscle. Is there a pattern to these injuries and are there specific preparation exercise someone can do in addition to the obvious strength and endurance work.

[@adamgamba6673]

how is delta different from the sas?

[@d.wesleydinkins917]

how bout there from different countries across the Atlantic Ocean

[@anthonyberardinelli8767]

They are pretty similar actually because delta was formed on the principles of SAS. US Green beret Charles Beckwith back in 70s did a few tours with SAS guys and when he returned back to his platoon, he brought the idea to our military about having a agressive counter terror unit and that's how delta force was formed in 1978

[@dabtican4953]

Better funding tbh, SAS was a little behind this century I heard from some interviews of SAS guys and delta guys but now it seems the SAS also got some very nice kit and they're rather similar to delta now

[@bigg4089]

They drink less tea in Delta

[@VM-yt2fj]

The funding and training making a huge difference. You are talking about the world largest economy funding about 1500 peoples of CAG and 1500 peoples from DEVGRU. And they are the best U.S ground units out there. DEVGRU for naval operations for sure. And we are not even talking about the population ratio plays a huge factor there. The SAS are definitely top notch. However, if you looking into the IQ distributions from the developed country perspective. You have a much bigger population here in the state compared to the Britishes. So, you actually have a greater chance to make smarter people be borned in the U.S. Just like picking 1500 people out of a 325millions base number. You have 0.00046154% of chance being selected. That roughly equals 1 out of 216,666 people. This is like only one dude got picked in the average mid-size city. If it's in UK, it's gonna be 800 SAS members out of 67.22 millions population, which rounds out about 0.00119012%. This is like picking 1 person out of 84025 people. It's like a small city mayor. Which means U.S is having 2.5785 times more difficulty to pick on a individual to such unit than in UK if it's based on the statistics here. Not talking about the IQ factorials reflection toward larger base number here as mentioned, and the actual training budget+R&D. 🤑 (Plus, opportunity to goes on different missions, world rare mission makes even better experience.) That's why Delta > SAS.

[@vutran3758]

What about Ranger to RRC?

[@G4x5da]

What about it?

[@ColKurtzknew]

Support specialists at the Unit have their own Selections and then go through the OTC. Very interesting.

[@vitigaymer1053]

They don't go through same OTC as Assaulters. Jamey went through WV Selection and OTC to become Asssaulter. Only Operators go through OTC. Not Support Guys.

[@G4x5da]

⁠​⁠@@vitigaymer1053e literally said support guys get a slot in OTC with all the operators of selection

[@neelonghunglow]

The eastern half of Washington state is a dessert. A large portion of it looks very similar to Afghanistan. Thank you all for your service.

[@ApexSpectator36]

What type of dessert? Lemon meringue 🍋, strawberry cheesecake🍓maybe even èclairs?

[@roofer3608]

@@ApexSpectator36 grammer nazi's are such dorks

[@LRRPFco52]

@@roofer3608 You have to make it through the spelling Nazis before you can graduate to grammar Nazis.

[@tommyranger1]

When I arrived at the 2d Ranger Bn, I was told don't concern yourself with the weather. If you can see Mt Rainier first thing in the morning, it's going to rain. If you can't see Mt Rainier, don't worry about it, it's already raining.

[@ApexSpectator36]

@@roofer3608 it's a joke, not a d*ck...

[@4oh63]

All of the audio cutting in an out, have you guys never heard of Discord?

[@wizzardofpaws2420]

Wow 14 yrs in the unit

[@MikeHunt-rw4gf]

Algorithm.

[@robertdewit7444]

Algorithm candy

[@gregsayshello9576]

I’m 25 series. You’d probably have to at least kill me for me not to try and go to selection.

[@michealsealy1908]

You guys should interview Sean Rogers former SF 10th Group law enforcement and author and has a KZbin channel and a company called FNG ( fucking new guy ).

[@Thebluesky0311]

he has done plenty of interviews and there all similar because of his short career, while there tons of another SOF guys who would be better to get their stories out in the open.

[@arighteousname5882]

@@Thebluesky0311 I concur

[@Reaper7Podcast]

Never heard anyone use I,I,I,I…Damn Top, I was a Ranger too,but Geez don’t you think you should recognize more people than when you were a E-7???

[@wesdavis6942]

i know him!

[@haroldverdecia5490]

The unit!! Uhhhh

[@jayklink851]

👍👍👍👏

[@daves679]

I can see tha look in Dave & Jacks eyes........shoulda went.....

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

Did you went?

[@gilbertwalker3222]

He’s the perfect grey man.

[@thomasboston1887]

WHO RAH FOR SIGNAL CORPS 72 E FORT GORDON A-3-1 AGUSTA

[@Forged407]

Hi

[@theblackjfk8190]

1st Batt best batt lol

[@Civiczz_]

what is The Unit?

[@stephencao2903]

Delta Force

[@SethBeck]

CAG

[@rp4712]

Delta Force - Combat Applications Group (CAG) - 1st SFOD . One of two of the US military’s top Counter Terrorism/ Direct Action Special Missions Unit

[@jimmykalal825]

@@rp4712 is the other DEVGRU?

[@rp4712]

@@jimmykalal825 yeah

[@travelinman482]

A squadron? Isn’t that Air Force jargon? Never heard that word used in the Army. Always heard “squad”.

[@SGobuck]

Cav has been using it forever.

[@juniortemong7856]

So does SOF units

[@G4x5da]

@@juniortemong7856only in JSOC. It started with Delta using British nomenclature - as a hommage to the SAS. Other units within JSOC also accepted this (eventually NSWDG too). All non-JSOC SOF (except AFSOC) use companies/bataljons etc.

[@acontemplative1]

Algorithm bump

[@sbragan5lg76i]

You hear so many stories about non combat mos's getting shit on and then wonder why goat farmers keep kicking your asses.

[@roy6254]

Just like trump said he would fight for the USA like the past 🤣😂