Hola From Ft Gordon

[TxArmyGuy]

Well Ladies and Gents I have 3 more weeks till I graduate from the U.S. Army Signal school and get back to doing something hardcore...The gyms here suck so my lifting hasn't gotten back on track like I was wanting it too...I'm going back to Ft Benning for Jump school and RIP once I leave here so eventually I will be able to get my computer back up online...I hope everyone else is doing well...It appears more of the older crew I knew aren't around and see alot of new names...Hopefully you all are still training hard and doing well...

 

[WODIN]

Hey guy! Good to see you are still amongst the living. Good luck with jump school.

 

[vixenbabe]

Congrats on the graduation!

 

[The Ranger]

Heh heh heh....Wanna bet, between Jump School, and RIP, you won't really have time to even think of a puter my friend....Unless things have changed quite alot...

Enjoy RIP.....Here is a good piece of advice. Show up the first day with a can of smoke around your neck, like a necklace....when they ask you why it's there(The RI's)....Tell them in a clear Ranger voice..."You fucker's can't smoke my ass, so I brought my own! "

I did this in Marine Scout Sniper School.....Marines, no sense of humor. But, I know it will work in RIP....

Heh heh heh....Trust me....<wink>

Ranger

 

[TxArmyGuy]

Thanks...it's good to see some familiar names on here still...I'm looking forward to Jump school, but more so with RIP

I'm thinking with everything the Army is doing that I can get squared away at my first duty station and can get sent to Ranger School in Oct which would give me 4 months from the time I get to my 1st duty station...In all likelyhood I'm going to be deployed next spring sometime so I want to get all my training knocked out of the way. I want to get deployed so I'll be volunteering for whatever will get me some good training...I put in some volunteer requests for Air Assault and Pathfinder schools but I'm not expected to get accepted for those right now

 

[TxArmyGuy]

Ranger your not the first to mention this to me...There is a prior Service guy thats training here with one of the clases after mine who mentioned this...It's pretty cool to see alot of prior service guys here training to get back into the military.

 

[Longhorn85]

I'm thinking with everything the Army is doing that I can get squared away at my first duty station and can get sent to Ranger School in Oct

Sounds like you're doing great Chris. I'm not surprised at all. Since you have some college you may pin on E4 quickly (if you haven't already) so you will move up quickly on the Order of Merit list for Ranger School once you get to a Batt. Which Batt do you want? I was at 3rd and 2d and I can tell you they are quite different. Fort Lewis is wet and gets cold, while Benning of course is hot and humid. They are both great places to live and work.

Good Luck in RIP and Jump school. Keep your feet and knees together.

RLTW!
ttlpkg

 

[TxArmyGuy]

Benning would be good, the Ranger Recruiter who came here was with the 75th Regt headquarters, and he talked a good bit about the different bn's

I'm wanting to check out the 1st...Benning wouldn't be to bad to go back to and stay, but Savanah sounds like an Awesome place to check out...One of the Females here her brother is a Rip instructor who has spent alot of time with the 1st...He's supposed to come up here next weekend I think. If he does then I'm going to talk to him a good deal about it...One of my buddies that graduate from here about a month ago should be almost done with RIP. He graduated from jump school a few weeks ago and was going straight to RIP from there...Ft Lewis sounds like it would be fun...No matter where they send me I should do ok....I just want to get squared away and get through all the training so I can get into a Unit and get to work...Interesting times await...Ttlpkg you have any deployment plans comming up?

 

[TxArmyGuy]

Well time for me to jet...I need a haircut and goign to find a hotel with a pool for me to layout by and get some sun...Take care people...I'll be back on later this weekend to see whats going on

 

[The Ranger]

Go with the first...H.A.A.F. is a great post, and the night life is quite nice as well.....as for becoming a Spec. 4, soon as you pass Ranger School, that is automatic my friend...even is you're a Pvt. you become a Spec. 4

As for Air Assault School, unless it's changed, Ranger's don't rec. that school, we teach our own.....for your given MOS, Pathfinder and scuba school is more realistic......

Enjoy humping the commo on road marches for the Batt. Commander on road marches....you'll learn to hate that fucking radio mid summer on a tank trail.....

We did a fun jump one weekend, invited GF's and family to watch the helo's and jump's....I was in charge, and had consumed quite a few beverages before we started....needless to say I was rather happy....heh heh heh....to say the least I might add....

We were jumping CH-47's...Ramp blasts, which I love. I went off the ramp first, and landed near a patch of pokeberry's....I rolled over and grabbed a huge handful, smeared them across my face and neck and began moaning....I didn't notice a bunch of civilians had walked over to where I lay.

To make a long story short, they fucking freaked out because it looked like my brains had gotten knocked out by the impact, the medics came running to the civilians screams, the 1st Sgt came over..not happy. The 1st Sgt explained to the women and kids that it was training and we had to be prepared for everything, the medic's did a good job of improvising with first aid, and everyone was happy......

Until we got back to the Barracks....Now, you gotta picture this. The base is 12 miles all the way around. 1st Sgt. Spears gave me a mop, and a bucket, and he drove his car while I ran all the way around perimeter road moping up pot holes in the way....me drunk, wanting to laugh, gag, and cry at the same time...ink stains all over my face, the 1st Sgt. screaming at me like I'm a Pedophile, people driving by staring.....

Heh heh heh....Never did that shit again....

Ranger

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Later dude god luck.

Jump school is prettychill you'll have some time. RIP is a little tougher but it;s a little weird - the instructors don;t want to be there all the time either....it sucks but it goes quick.

I would say avoid 3D BN. You're right under Regt HQ all teh time.
I liked 2D but never heard anything bad about 1st.

Look at it this way:

1st - Savannah / HAAF
2nd - Lewis /Seattle area

3rd = shitty Columbus GA.

No brainer

 

[The Ranger]

Adding to Matt....I must say, Washington State was wonderful, but I liked Savannah better...my opinion on that. Look at it like this, you only get to go home when they let you, try to get stationed closest to your family....it''s save when ya travel my friend....

Ranger

 

[velvett]

HIHIHI!!


CONGRATS on graduation!


miss ya.

-k