The standard service rifle of the US Army Rangers is the M4A1 with the SOPMOD kit. Some units have used the FN SCAR-L in the past, but the order for SCAR-Ls to equip the whole of SOCOM was cancelled in 2010.

The length of your Advanced Individual Training is dependent upon which MOS you enlisted as. Different occupations require different amounts of training, hence the length of AIT varies between occupations.

the badges go above the us. army nametape. the one closest to the nametape will be the air assault badge 1/8 inch apart from the nametape. then above that 1/4 inch apart from the air assault badge will be the combat action badge.the combat action badge is the more important of the two so it is on top. Everything can be found in AR 670-1.

There are approximately 5 Recon Marines active.

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well it depends on if you want to be worked harder..if you join the Marines they have a very tough boot camp that will stretch you to your limits..the Army does still have a hard boot camp but they are not a rigorous as the Marines

Army Ranger Wing's motto is 'Glaine ár gcroí, neart ár ngéag agus beart de réir ár mbriathar'.

Prehistoric human beings, when they discovered fire.

Depends on what the future holds, and also what you do. Both services deploy frequently... rotations might be more commonplace in the Marines, as it has a much smaller force to draw from. Both forces have units which deploy regularly, and they both have units which don't deploy at all. If your purpose of enlisting is simply looking for "action", you may want to reconsider it.... after three tours as a Combat Medic in the Army, I can tell you firsthand your eagerness for "action" will wane very quickly.

The only one I can think of jobwise would be that possibly you may have let yourself become out of date on technology. However, if you have kept up, the advantages of an older employee out weigh anyone else--reliability, experience, ability to adapt and so on.

No... doesn't it seem a bit of a redundant question? The Rangers are an element of the Army... to serve in an Army unit, you have to be in the Army. Don't really see any other way to go about it. If you're just interested in the school, you can go through it without being in the Army... but you'd still have to be serving in some branch of the military.

Bishop was officially credited with 72. This puts him third on the overall list behind Germany's Richthofen (80) and France's Fonck (75). Bishop was thus the second highest scoring Allied ace, and the highest in the British Empire and Commonwealth. He was a Canadian. Udet of Germany was fourth overall, with 62. Of these four, all but Richthofen survived the war.

-an advantage of a light sensor is that energy is being saved by the lights in whatever situation because they will only turn on when light is sensed.

-a disadvantage is that most sensors need an interface to convert analogue signals into the digital signals that a computer can understand.

Special Patrol Group ended in 1986.

The advantages of jamming food preservation is that the fruit is cooked which kills off most vegetative microbe cells and sugar is added which reduces the water activity which means that most spoilage organisms will not grow in it during storage.

The disadvantage is that if it is not properly packaged, sealed and stored, yeast and molds could still grow on the food.

Yes. Unlike the Combat Infantryman Badge, Expert Infantryman Badge, and Combat Action Badge - which are Group I awards - the Combat Medic and Expert Field Medic Badges are Group II awards. The CAB was intended for personnel who are not eligible for the Combat Infantryman Badge. Contrary to what was previously stated, not everyone who serves in an Infantry unit is eligible for a CIB. A Combat Medic in an Infantry unit does not get awarded a CIB, for example. If that unit has dedicated communications personnel assigned to the unit, they're not eligible for the CIB (however, someone with an 11B MOS who is serving as a radiotelephone operator is eligible for a CIB).

One interesting contrast with the CAB vs. the CIB and CMB is that the CAB is awarded - at least in theory - only to those who make direct contact with the enemy, whereas the only requirements for the CIB and CMB is that you spend 30 days in a zone for which the award is authorised, whether you make contact or not. Truth of the matter is, there are plenty of CAB recipients who have legitimately earned it - there's also a good number of fobbits who've received them because some mortars landed on the opposite side of the camp they were at.

By the way, the Combat Medic badge is no longer exclusive to line medics - from 2001 to 2004, the Army revamped it's MOS classification system. The MOS of 91B (Combat Medic) was removed, and was folded into the MOS of 68W (Healthcare Specialist) - which encompasses a much broader range than the old 91B MOS did. Thus, you have medics being awarded CMBs who've never so much as left the FOB.

Yes, you can, although the likelihood of your chain of command facilitating it is questionable. If you were lower enlisted, you'd have to attend RIP. If you're an NCO or officer, you'd have to have attended and completed Ranger School first.

Roughly 120 mph flat and stable. Head-down is much faster, but is not stable (it takes active control). Terminal velocity is when the gravity force upon an object is equal to that of the wind resistance.

Combat Action Badge was created on 2005-05-02.

Justin Barham age 18

The best way to become an army ranger is simple to expalin

1. For enlisted people: go to your recruiter and ask him about the Army Ranger contract, if your already in, do airborne school, ranger school to earn your tab, then apply for Ranger assessment and selecton process (RASP)

2 for officers: same thing as enlisted exept go to college and do rotc.

Of course they learn hand to hand.

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