“He had to apply three times and he had to put up with a ton of s--t, but when he threatened to resign, they gave it to him. The next youngest guy in his class was half his age. They must have thought he was some far-out old man humping it over that course. I did it when I was 19 and it damn near wasted me. A tough mother------.”— Apocalypse Now.
We need 100 Col. Kurtz right now in Iraq.
Perhaps one in the White House.
My son went through in early 04 at the age of 29. He looked like a concentration camp survivor when I went down for graduation. I asked him if he was the oldest, and he said there may have been one who was 30. He also said that the only good thing about making it through Ranger School is that you don’t have to go through it again. He’s damn proud of that Ranger Tab.
Martin was talking about Jump School. Of course, Martin had been to neither.