Army Rangers

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Yes. Members of military reserve components (including both the federal reservists and the National Guard) attend the same Basic Training/Boot Camp as their active duty counterparts.

Before you ship, your recruiter will provide you with a packing list, and will go over any additional needs with you.

Rangers do some Special Operations missions, but the jobs of Special Forces and Rangers are different, Rangers are Elite Light Infantry, while Special Forces go behind enemy lines and train fighters to assist in taking down a common enemy/opposing force.

"Special ops unit" is a very fluid term, and special ops is a broad category.. on top of the actual units of operators themselves, there's also things such as Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations battalions, military intelligence units, etc. A "special ops unit" could be anything from a Special Forces A-team divided into two groups of six, all the way up to an entire Ranger Regiment of three line battalions.

A British citizen can join the US Army, and a British soldier might be attached temporarily to a US unit, or sent to a US training/instructional programme, but they won't be able to be in both services simultaneously.

Yes, as a US Marine; or the FBI, the CIA, as well as other Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies

If you earned your Ranger tab on active duty prior to joining the Army Reserve, you will still continue to be Ranger qualified. If you are simply serving in the US Army Reserve and intent to be sent to Ranger school from your Reserve unit, your chances are slim to none, and you would be better off to join the National Guard and try to get into a Special Forces unit of the National Guard. If you are looking to serve in a Ranger unit of the US Army Reserve, then this will be impossible, as there are no such units in the Army Reserve. The US Army Reserve is composed of training and support units, with all combat arms relegated to the Regular Army and Army National Guard. The one exception to this is the 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry Regiment, which is an infantry battalion of the US Army Reserve, which is composed of reservists from Hawaii, American Samoa, Saipan, and Guam.

A few months ago, there was a recruiter who posted on this site regularly. According to him, the Army was actual overstrength, and wasn't accepting GEDs at the time - you had to possess at least a high school diploma. That may or may not have changed since then - you'll have to talk to a recruiter to find out. If they're accepting recruits with GEDs again, you'll have as much opportunity to become a sniper as someone with a diploma. However, you don't enlist as a sniper - you'd enlist as... typically an infantryman or cavalry scout... and then you have to prove to your chain of command that it's worth it for them to send you to the sniper course. There's more to it than just being a good shot.

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.