Question About The Army Rangers

[WildGoth]

I have been looking for a good source of infomation on the rangers maybe someone here could help my airsoft team is thinking about Rangers for what part of the army we are suppose to be a part of We choose the rangers because we all find them very interstanting don't worry for anyone here who knows or is somebody from the rangers we don't intend to lose and make you look bad but back on track i have one of their manunels so i know alot about them but a few things i have trouble finding is

1. do they use any weapons they want or do they have standard guns

2. what do they pack in their bags

3. what is their fitness training daily

4. before a mission how knowledge are they on local plants and the terrain they are fighting on

5. Do they pack their own survival kit

Here is some back info on the mission
the background of the mission is a mountainous forest with chance of rain avg. temp. of 60-80 degrees possabilty of dropping to 30 or below the terrain is new york mountainous region with same plants and animals but not planning on trapping but if so small game like rabbits medium chance of snow
Mission is to survive and elimate terrorist pickup is in 3 days 1-3 weapon and supply caches
if you need any more info just tell me and i will supply Thank you for any and all infomation

[wareagle69]

light infantry tactics for small teams by christopher larsen

[WildGoth]

i checked out the book it seems to be only on tactics not on the specfics based on what i saw will have to pay a stop to barnes and noble for more on this book

[FVR]

14 /15, yeh, that's when I started asking questions about the Marines. I knew my freshman year of hs that I was joining when I graduate.

Just keep asking those questions.

[WildGoth]

thanks for the support FVR trying to choose between army or marine corp.

[crashdive123]

Like FVR said - keep asking questions. What attracts you to that lifestyle right now?

[WildGoth]

the risk the excitment the weapons the travel

[WildGoth]

right now i'm trying to learn about them for my airsoft team once again any info on this question would be greatly appercaited

[crashdive123]

Don't count out Navy Seals. I wasn't one, but worked pretty closely with em on one of the boats I was on. They are a pretty special bunch, as are all of the special forces.

[Rick]

Now I'm confused. I thought navy seals were what you used to keep the boat watertight when it went underwater. I guess I don't know navy beans about it.

[crashdive123]

Now I'm confused. I thought navy seals were what you used to keep the boat watertight when it went underwater. I guess I don't know navy beans about it.

Tried it once.

ONCE

Kinda like a bar fight broke out

[WildGoth]

wow once again we got way off track lol

[Rick]

Wild - We're old. Our minds wonder. Just keep herding in the right direction. Meow.

[WildGoth]

i did not know you could herd cats now that would be dangerous no leading them to water

[crashdive123]

No not really. You said you were interested in the risk, the excitement, the weapons and the travel. Let me tell you, I didn't realize the risk (huge). Oh boy, was there some excitement. Weapons? Oh yeah! and travel? Yep - got that covered - one end of the missile compartment to the other.

[Rick]

I guess leaning against a couple megatons of warhead makes a SAW look like a pea shooter, huh.

[WildGoth]

taking that as travel bet you did alot crash lol

[WildGoth]

guess it does rick a pea shooter that can put a hole right through you

[crashdive123]

Kind of. Every now and then (4 times for me personally in my career) we would launch one or more for a training exercise. Pretty impressive when they leave the boat (I guess it's a whole lot more impressive when they land).

[WildGoth]

yeah definetly when you are the one whoose name is on the to side of the card