Posted on 02/22/2016 7:48:10 PM PST by EveningStar
The internet has no shortage of basement-dwelling commandos beating at their keyboards like chimpanzees as they forcefully insist upon one incorrect factoid or another regarding Special Operations units. All SEALs are considered Tier One, right?
No. Rangers pull security for Delta, correct? Time to throw away that scratched-up "Black Hawk Down" DVD, hero.
Since the Internet stupidity goes on and on, two of the SOFREP staff decided to team up and write a definitive article about the differences between SEALs and Rangers. This article was co-written by Brandon Webb, who served in SEAL Team Three, and Jack Murphy, who served in 3rd Ranger Battalion.
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The internet has no shortage of basement-dwelling commandos beating at their keyboards like chimpanzees as they forcefully insist upon one incorrect factoid or another regarding Special Operations units. All SEALs are considered Tier One, right?
No. Rangers pull security for Delta, correct? Time to throw away that scratched-up “Black Hawk Down” DVD, hero.
Since the Internet stupidity goes on and on, two of the SOFREP staff decided to team up and write a definitive article about the differences between SEALs and Rangers. This article was co-written by Brandon Webb, who served in SEAL Team Three, and Jack Murphy, who served in 3rd Ranger Battalion.
Ping
And then there’s the Marines’ Force Recon.
I don’t know a lot about any of them. I think the Rangers are more in number and that would indicate they would be used more like regular troops but in more audacious circumstances.
The Seals seem to be the ones for smaller really high value operations.
I don’t personally know this but have read it a couple of time. The Air Force Para-rescue are the most highly trained of all of our special forces.
One of my DI’s was Force Recon. The dude never ceased to amaze. He trained us to make sure we would survive on the battle field. God bless Sgt. Barialla.
If bad language offends you don’t check this out.
How to be an Operator.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yf0R7n02owM
Active Duty ping.
This is a discussion usually carried on by non-SEALS or non-Rangers. They are all bad asses with different missions. SEALs don’t fight Rangers or vis-versa so it’s a non starter. They work together to kill our enemies.
If only our political leaders understood their real worth and power, ISIS and any other terrorist organization would be done if they just let them do their job. Instead, politicians with political goals hamstring the greatest, most well trained fighting force to achieve “politically correct” victories.
Freedom and liberty is swinging in the balance right now, and these guys have skills that could save us or sink us. Time will tell if honor or blind obedience will win out.
Save
The one thing that Rangers and SEALs have in common is that they both are almost good enough to be Marines.
Heh.
Semper Fi!
Thanks for the link. Both Seals and Rangers are insanely brave.
“Operator” That always makes me snicker. My mom was an operator too. Bet she has some stories.
180,000 bad ass men.
I've seen Marines do amazing things in my years in the Navy. The discipline is unmatched. Man for man, they shoot better than any other military force in the world.
And, they are the type of men who clean out Falluja or Beruit or some other hell hole where nobody else wants to go.
If the US ever sets foot in Mosul again, it will be under the USMC banner.
Marines, Seabees cousins.
Seabees, by the way, the least known of them all.
'Air Force Pararescue is the only United States Department of Defense elite combat force specifically organized, trained, equipped, and postured to conduct full spectrum personnel recovery to include both conventional and unconventional combat rescue operations. Pararescue is the nation’s force of choice to execute the most perilous, demanding, and extreme rescue missions anytime, anywhere across the globe.' https://www.pararescue.com/
Any Officer Rangers in the MI Corps or Signal Corps or any other support Corps is only as good as his CDR. That usually amounts to Enlisted up to Senior NCO’s (non Rangers) being worth buckets of urine and Ranger Commanders being tossed like spit buckets if the snow is too deep in the Battalion
parking lot. Keep all officer rangers in the 75th or don’t train them.
way too many stories I could tell - talking with them, seeing them in training and reading about their exploits. The old saying “You don’t have to be crazy to be here, but it sure helps.” had to be about Force Recon.
Semper fi
Do or die
The Coast Guard Special Forces, based out of Omaha, would kick their ass.
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