I went through RIP beginning of 05 before it changed to RASP. I tore my rotator cuff at Cole range. I was just absolutely defeated but a bad ass RI, SFC McDowell really lifted me up and put things back in perspective. I ended up in 2/505 in the Deuce then to 3/509 in Alaska. I got to do all kinds of cool ass shit up there, mountain warfare, tons of jumps, cobra gold, etc. I was WIA in Iraq and medboarded in 2010. SFC McDowell was KIA in Afghanistan but I will always remember him and respect him for refocusing me after my injury and subsequent surgery on my shoulder.

Just passed RASP earlier this year, we definitely had similar experience 😂.

Dude goes on a deployment to heal his ankle, badass

"I have a very low stress level because at some point I became comfortable with failure. I've failed so many times that I've come to believe that if im not failing regularly, I'm either not trying, or im not reaching high enough." - Owen West Keep it coming bro 💯

Great job! Never giving up is one hell of a experience

Really well spoken, felt like I was there along with you for the punching the locker part. Thanks for the videos

Another awesome video, looking forward to the rasp and sfas comparison, I’ve done some research and anything else I can learn helps

Really enjoy the content make, definitely keep it coming, you always are giving great knowledge information to help out people decide about special operations

Hey man, been loving the videos and have found many of your tips and knowledge really helpful for my prep for SF selection down in Australia. Keep it up and respect from your brothers down under.

I like how humble this guy is.

In the VA parking lot watching this vid the day after veterans day. What perfect timing.

Dang Buck look at them subscribers. Good job dude. Keep up the good work!

Holy shit your channel is growing so fast and rightfully so. I fucking love it

Cant wait to see the sfas vs rasp video. Would love to see one as well on the differences of being green beret vs ranger beyond the selection process

Wow subscribed today at like 9.3k... something like that, understand .5. And came back to watch another video now it’s at 10k. Amazing man, congrats on the channel growth brother

I really like the unbiased way you convey information

So I wasn't in the military. But I was a corrections officer and local Leo for 25 years. When I got on our SWAT team our department hired a security contractor to train us. Our sniper team trainer was a ranger and the hostage rescue/fire team trainer was a British SAS guy. The traing was absolutely awesome. The sniper instructor was the coolest dude ever and he really knew his stuff about rifle shooting. Nicest guy ever. Dave, the SAS guy was super knowledgeable too and also a great instructor, but he LOVED to PT the shit out of us. He was only happy if we were miserable. The dude was in his late 40s and he could out PT pretty much everyone on the team. What an incredible experience for a guy like me to be able train with those guys. Hats off to all of you guys.

Also, mad respect making a video about a time where you fell short. In the end, things happened the way they did for a reason, and you ended up where you were supposed to be. RLTW/DOL

I’ve worked with y’all before back when I was in PSYOP. I’m still in(now a biomed) and deployed yet again right now. I wish I could’ve went RASP, when I was younger but got diagnosed with ITP (immune blood platelet disorder). I’m just trying to finish my last two years. An get out, before I have another flare up. I lost a year of my life with immunotherapy, depression and so on. I had just got off the trail too. I meant to comment on your “leaving the military” video. Keep grinding maneee 💪🏾 I’ll be 30 soon... I’m trying to live life. Been a good 10 or so years, in the Army. But my body is done 😂

Been on my own since 17 yrs old.. 69 years old now ....... Love the challenges , even today ........... Bring it on .........

Woah Bro, I actually own Dick Couch's book "SUA SPONTE, The Forging of a Modern American Ranger". It's a great read for all those interested in RASP, it even goes a bit deeper than RASP and interviews a few rangers with questions of life in regiment, family, and even the culture of regiment. I'm sorry to hear about that injury man, without a doubt it must already be a Highly stressful environment in RASP. Knowing that someone is documenting that process must be added weight to the mental stress. Love the videos, thank you for all the info you're putting out!

Fr the most underrated military channel ever

Great video, I wish they had a complete program like RASP when I went to RIP. I ended up in 1st Battalion with some guys I wouldn't trust in the motor pool of a NG public affairs units. They didn't last long but they got me smoked over and over. CSMs Mesa and 1Sgt Espinoza loved to make examples of FNGs. They were like vultures, but they wanted the no-loadeds gone asap. Went from 11C to 35B in Regiment, then on to 352D (electronic emissions detection and location technician) at DIA. I'm pretty sure I briefed you while I was ISA.

10-4 on this story! I wish I saw something like this in 1981. RASP was RIP back in day . I went from Basic and AIT straight to AIRBORNE, , then to my duty station. A year later in July I went to RIP. I felt like that should have stood for Rest In Peace for real. I got smoked and lost 14 lbs. I didn't really understand the difference between RIP and RANGER SCHOOL. I thought that you got the Tab, don't ask, but I wanted to be in Battalion so after RIP I went to RANGER SCHOOL. I suck at land nav, but I passed with flying colors. So I got my Scroll and my Tab always a happy adrenaline junkie for almost 8 yrs. I recommend if you choose ether or both " Jump In" with both feet! Be committed if you have any doubt it will bite you in the ass for sure!

Oh I remember Brash. He was still a SSG when I attempted back in 09 before they switched the program from RIP to RASP. He was a monster on the PT field. I remember doing log PT and there were 4 of us on one log. Of course the Bat boys that were in ran by and called us pussies. We had to take this log and run around the track. I look over while we were running with this log and see then SSG Brash with a log similar in size across his back by himself just trucking across the track. He was intense but was never disrespectful. Always called everyone gentlemen and gave us real talk before he brought the pain. I was med dropped for tearing my miniscus in my right knee and ended up at Ft Drum.

Great channel, 53 years old, still love to ruck, to stay in shape, love my Goruck, 50 lbs, hitting the hills in my neighborhood, with my German Shepherd, average 15 miles, 3 miles twice aweek, get so many health benefits, very time get my blood work done, from rucking, its great

Badass dude, glad I found your channel.

Buck you’re a badass, please keep droppin knowledge ✊🏽

I just finished the Rasp 1 section of that Dick Couch book! I am headed to OSUT in one week then Rasp. Can’t believe you were in that class. What a trip.

Vincent is a real stud. Man's man and a stellar human being. The kind of guy America needs.

Lol I love this. Your face was hilarious when you react

Love the content, short and to the point. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the Surviving The Cut series? Either the RASP or SFAS episodes.

Great video! Brought back great memories bro!!!!

Learned a lot from this video. Thanks for the upload

🇨🇦 We appreciate your service sir!!

fucking love this guy, just so genuine & straight about it all. but i can feel he's holding back the "fuck"s when he's talking haha. keep it up man!

Been bing watching all your videos recently and i fucking love the info 💯 my brother is a retired green beret and im about to pull the trigger and join💪🏻

Appreciate your honesty Cco 1/75th..... Keep up the great work

this channel is gold.

Great to hear your experience. Got injured last year in rasp, got sent away to a shit regular unit and am fighting to go back. Finally got new leadership that’s willing to let me go here in a few months. My 6 month return will have turned in to about 16 months but worth it.

Good bro migo keep them coming!

Planning to go the ranger regiment (11x opt 40) route and these types of videos make we want it even more

I can only imagine the way your heart dropped to your stomach when you heard "Well, you're out"...

This channel has grown a shit ton since last week.

Cant wait 4 that RASP vs SFAS video fr 🏴‍☠️

Wassup Buck great vid man

Bro, your so close to 10K. Congrats 👏

Graduated RIP 98. Definitely remember that run from Airborne School w/gear. Didn't know what I was getting into but my boy talked me into it(retired CSM on some next level). Make no mistake, there were some challenges like the usual cardio/muscle failure dance. Didn't know about the swim test and failed 1st and 3rd station. So for the next set of miserable days - rucking, ranger creed eff ups, cooking asphalt w/those 'catch me & eff me shorts' and on graduation day - 2nd go at swim test. Passed. Looking back - screw those knots. RLTW

Dam I read that book it was a great book, crazy to see you were in that story.

I'm 37 going for that age waiver because of you. Looking forward to the book! This channel is awesome! Thank you!

Watched the video serves as lesson that you have to know what is more important doing something important or advancing your career

The story's you tell us about are great!!!!!!!

Pretty much mirrors my RASP experience. I guess you were that 2010 class. Not much changed in 4 years. I was able to convince cadre to give me a med recycle, but ended up with a med drop in my second class for a foot injury during the jump. I was devastated as well, but I still got to go to an Airborne unit and deploy. Now SF is the path. Rangers are a different culture than SF for sure, but more intense in a lot of ways. Its more "in your face", whereas SF is largely performance and personality based. I'd 100% recommend RASP to new soldiers. Prior service I'd say go SF, only because the learning curve for a prior service guy in the Rangers is steep. Its better to start there as Private and let the Regiment build you up.

Solid story man!

9:33 Absolutely true ... People also often forget that CAG admit rangers form the 75th far more than any other units in the Army (70 to 80% of it is made up of 75th Rangers). Basically take a 75th Ranger, make him go to sniper school, Ranger School, get his HALO wings, and maybe SERE School to top it off, and he has more chances of making it into CAG than any other unit in the army. And getting into CAG is something some people in elite units such as Green Berets, 160th SOAR and others are competing for at some point in their carreer.

In basic (1988) they made us paint two white dots on the back of one pair of boots. Everyone wore dots one day and no dots the next. Everyone had two pair of well broken in boots by the end of basic.

So memorize the creed, and break in more than one pair of boots👍🏻

I had a pretty similar experience with my ankle during the final hike in USMC ITB (first real infantry training right after basic). In the last mile or two my ankle hit the deck and it felt broken but after falling back about 100m I had to hobble back up to my platoon. Finally took my boot off and mid shin to the tip of big toe was mostly black with a little bit of blue. Shoes doc amd he just said "you know what it means if I take this higher?" And I just lived with it since I wasn't about to get sent to a holding platoon. Took two years to walk right

This video was helpful, there aren't alot of 1st hand accounts of RASP available on KZfaq right now so I really appreciate it. What was that badass outro song?

Hoorah! 🇺🇲👍

Respect Man

Rock on!

10k subs dude!!

its crazy because im literally out training along with 3rd group rn with my regular infantry platoon these guys are way more laid back and chill unlike the rangers you normally see

I’ll be building toward my SFAS Packet, gotta try it at least once while I’m in

almost at 10k awesome

Bro you're blowing up

Can you talk about working with marsoc? What they bring to the table and what you guys do on a deployment.

Good stuff for sure appreciate all the good info. No disrespect, I think that's an magpul mbus on your front iron and it looks backwards also your rear is gone. Good set up though. Thanks again for the stories.

"Put your bags on the truck. If the truck is full load the bus"! Right Face, forward MARCH, Double time, MARCH! AROUND LAWSON AIRFIELD WE WENT, AROUND THE BACK GATE OF 3/75.......INTO THE COMPOUND. "WELCOME TO THE REGIMEMT. WE DONT WANT YOU AND WE DONT NEED YOU"!. I miss it everyday. Best job I ever had. B co. Sua Sponte' RLTW!!!

this video came at a really great time because i was recently dropped at Class 09-20 for failing Land Nav by 1 Point at Cole Range (Week 4). They dropped all the 11Bs- got a 6-Month Return and i’m really trying to go back. I don’t belong in the Big Army, but I know that me failing was due to my own lack of Land Nav skill and i’m working towards making myself better. Hoping to get that Tan Beret soon...

Can you include your training focus recommendations for rasp in your next rasp video?

Oh the memories

BRO! I read Sue Sponte by Dick. THAT WAS YOU!!!! (He changed names in the book).

Come to find out I was slotted for the last RIP class prior to changing to RASP. Cadre canceled my class cause they wanted a bigger class to go through RASP (so we were told). Pre-RASP was just as bad (maybe worse than) RASP cause it’s only smoke sessions and BS details. I got injured on a ruck run doing that same slinky shit. It’s a lot of mind games. I was a Soft mos (25B), my recommendation to anyone got to rasp is to pack as light as possible. Ship you non essentials home! I had been in the army for over a yr by the time I got to Rasp and had way too many civilians, full class a, and random other shit.

SSG Brash!!! lengend

Bro is living my dream

Haha…I had a blood infection during that ruck, made it back to the barracks and blacked out. Those forced ones always suck

Facts!

Chris Holdsworth, great fighter!

It was RIP in my day!

I had a similar experience with a British color sergeant being the observer for my class. All the rasp instructors were dialing it up for us. Those ruck runs were a blast right at the end when they made us hold the ruck in front of us and climb suicide hill over and over!

RASP is super cardio heavy so be a good runner for all those who wanna go. Obviously make sure you can max push up and sit ups too but the cardio is rough. I was running a 1205 2 mile and a sub 35 5 mile before i went and the running still whooped my ass.

Do they let you wear any boot that meets 670-1 standards? The Oakleys come broken in from day 1 pretty much.

I take my asvab this Wednesday i hope i qualify to be a green beret

So you been around for sure

I think youre mentioned in his book.

I graduated the first RASP class (03-10). RLTW!

RASP still sounds weird to me. I graduated from RIP and we got black berets. Still the same though. I remember getting picked up by the sgt at airborne graduation. I think we lost 100 guys the first few days. I was in holdover for the first werjs. Major balls smoking.

One of fb friends was a retired e7 green beret, i asked him would u do it again knowing what u know now, he said no. I was surprised i said but why!? He said that commando shit is hard af on ur body, he said hes on a ton of pain meds and moves around like a 80 yr old man. He is 57 yrs old.

I need to know if im ready for SFAS 6 Miles at 7:15 pace 80 Good Form Pushups 2min 80 Good Form Situps 2min Ruck 14 miles 15:10 Pace 12 Perfect Form Pullups

Surprised you didn't end up rolling with ground branch, as ambitious as you are.

In pre rasp rn , it’s a fuck fest and everyone around me is dropping. But I want it more then them .

ROFL 🤣 was called RIP Ranger Indoctrination Program and we lost a few on the run from Airborne to RIP. First thing we were told was we don't care if everyone quits because that means we did our job. They meant it. Actually had a Captain who just graduated Ranger school let his dogs out of his truck to prove we weren't exhausted and could run faster. When I got to 2nd Battalion he was my company commander. Ranger Battalion is where Delta operators would come back to when they needed a break lol

No disrespect at all green berets are badass. I've always heard the analogy that going from rangers to special forces is a lateral move.

How do you get into rasp, sorry for my lack of knowledge, great videos man really enjoy tf out of them

I plan on joining the Army as an officer and this is something I really wanna do. Because I’m tired of always being the bottom feeder and pushed around by all the dicks in my school. When I heard about the regiment I was captured. This was something that was bigger than yourself and it’s full of the best brothers in arms going through shit. I’ve been training with weights, running, push- ups, sit ups etc because this is something I want to achieve and be apart of. My biggest problem is running and ruck marching. I’m a slow runner and I’ve had a history of asthma ( i haven’t had an asthma attack since I was like 8 I’m 17). P.S. my dad wanted to be a ranger but during ranger school he was ruck marching with a bunch of guys and they were sleep deprived the guy in front of him veered off and he followed but then he noticed that the guy in front of him fell down a 20 foot cliff it was too late and two guys behind him pushed him in and he has a tearing meniscus till this day. He had multiple surgeries but it wasn’t the same after that. So for those of you going to Ranger school and RASP keep any eye out in front of the guy that’s in front of you. This was mountain phase btw.

They canceled your RASP in August? They didn’t cancel RIP in August for us even though the heat index was above 120, but they couldn’t smoke us after completing the road March, so they made us sit in the sun all day. I went through about 3 t-shirts just sitting there. Then we had shit sleep that night in our Patrol Base, but I did spot one of the cadre trying to low crawl up on us. But then he killed our company commander because he didn’t delegate someone else to go engage him, so we basically still got shyatted on ha.

I left the army ng out of hs to do 6 yrs active af, i regretted not going active army getting my wings and ranger tab, i nvr had a desire to go sf. My childhood dream was 2b a airborne ranger. I didn't care 4 the af.

Great video, some guys recycle twice lol