If Sean wants to get a former active Ranger on the show, he should reach out to the warrior poet channel and John Lovell. I think with Johns former combat experience and his strong convictions, a God fearing, gun loving, red blooded Ranger would be a great interview!

Out of all the dudes you have had on your show, I like this guy the most. He is a regular guy and you would never know he was a bad dude if he didn't tell you. He gives lots of detail and explains things so people who have never served can understand.

Hey buddy, we really don't need a teaser at the start of the video. We know what we clicked on.

I Really enjoy the channel. Can’t wait for part 2. Have you tried to get Jocko, Goggins, and I think Joe Rogan would be great guests. If you ever get to interview Marcus Luttrell I have some great questions

@@timb8814 hell yes!

Caring for my mother in her final years was the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done. It sucked, it was hard, but there were good days too, and I’ll never regret having instead left her neglected in some nursing home. You’re a good person and honoring your father, and paying him back for raising you. You won’t be perfect, but that’s okay, what matters is that you’re there. 🙏

Was in Bravo, when your dad was in Hardrock. Sorry to hear about this, I'll keep him in my prayers. RLTW

Did it with my Dad and Agent Orange. Tough damn spot. In my thoughts hombre.

@@user-yq3fz9ch5q You remember a Sgt. Lamicha? Dad wasn't sure about the spelling...

@@KYLEtheOKIE BCo 2nd PSG. remember him well. Hard as woodpecker lips, twice on Sunday.

But it wouldn't get as much clickbait.

You could see it in his eyes speaking of the 40 mile infiltration. That's concentration and disciple of all sections. Bigger the unit the harder to control so you didn't get slammed and people dead. I'm guessing that was company level, that's a lot of people to keep alive. Whole freaking battalion we'd have to fan out then come together. We could do more damage that way 😂Always a plan that doesn't survive contact, still all on the same page.

We had a couple of guys that got kicked out of the 82nd because they were problems and wound up in our mechanized unit, they were always miserable to be anywhere around and had attitudes like they were better than everyone else and didn't deserve to be where they were at. And I don't believe his story that the DUI thing was all there was behind his getting booted out of the Ranger battalion, I saw plenty of guy's like him in the Army, we called them Billy Bad Asses, especially if you threw a couple drinks into the mix, I'd lay odds the DUI was more like the final alcohol related incident that broke the camels back, chances are there was a string of them involving fights with other members of the battalion when drinking, and or incidents off post that involved drinking and brawling with locals, his command probably just had enough of him at one point and wanted him out of their hair. If you look into Clint Eastwoods' military history it's the same thing, constantly out of ranks and various other issues, when he almost got killed because he hitched a ride in a military aircraft he talked the pilot into giving him up the coast so he could visit a girl he'd met that wound up ditching in the ocean, he was out of ranks at the time of the incident and they'd had enough of his hijinks and just completely got him out of the military all together and solved everyone's problems when it came to him, I'm glad he survived an aircraft ditching in the ocean because he's turned out to be one of America's greatest entertainers and a true icon for several generations but when it comes to him being in the military he was what was known as a gold brick and a sorry excuse for a soldier, he was proof some people just don't belong in the military.

@@dukecraig2402 nice wall of text, Did Read. 👍

@@bballstarcrazy8 It's true, people don't understand how tight you have to keep your shit. Buddy and I were talking, he was using CBD oil to sleep while he was doing chemo, yea dude any THC may get you booted. USAF MSGT doing shit he never told me about. Not even around the bonfire, bastard!!! 🤣 I vouched for him on clearance background stuff. It's not an absurd comment dude. In case you don't understand, even the USAF has special ops to deliver special ops, get it.

@@bballstarcrazy8 Yea, ok, so that's what all those elite units are SUPPOSED to be like yet there's more and more stories surfacing about things far worse than drinking incidents coming to light that've been swept under the rug by higher up's, The Team House, who one of the hosts was a Ranger, did a podcast with Matthew Cole author of the book Code Before Country about Seal Team 6 and the culture problems they're having because for years things got swept under the rug and it's led to an environment that has incidents far worse than DUI's being swept under the rug like murder, that incident with Eddie Gallagher killing some half dead Taliban fighter is nothing compared to what's being found out about him, thrill killing civilians with a borrowed sniper rifle in Afghanistan like some guy that was just walking his kids to get some water, or the incident that everyone knows about where those Seals got drunk and killed that Green Beret in Africa during a drunken hazing incident, the point they were making in that podcast was how it's all gotten started because those standards you think are upheld aren't and it leads to things like those, the one host of the podcast is an ex Ranger and he mentioned it happens too much. And like you the comments section has guy's calling them liars and traitors and how there's no way those kinds of things are true, Cole is just someone who wrote a bunch of untrue BS in his book and those two guy's that host the show, an ex Green Beret and an ex Ranger were only agreeing with him for sensationalism to get clicks on their video. If you don't like hearing what I said and don't think it's true you certainly won't like what really happened at Roberts Ridge, or the fact that the ex Seal O'Neil whose been going around for some years now claiming he's the guy that shot and killed Bin Laden and in all reality has been making money on that claim really wasn't who shot him, or Kris Kyle claiming that he beat up Jessie Ventura in a bar west coast Seals hang out in, and claiming in his book that he shot and killed two guys in Texas who attempted to rob him after he got out of the Navy yet people fact checking his book couldn't find any record of it in that county's records. Murder that higher up's try sweeping under the rug, higher up's trying to cover up incidents of cowardice while at the same time trying to block the MOH for a serviceman from another branch because the story of his heroic acts that led to his death include him being left by the servicemen of the branch trying to block his MOH, stories in books written by ex "elite" special operators that turn out aren't true and many more that drinking incidents pale in comparison are all from units and teams that you say wouldn't put up with a single drinking incident. Well unless you've been in the Rangers and can lay claim to knowing first hand that a single DUI Incident would 100% for sure eject someone from the Rangers I'm gonna have to go with what others in the special operations world including one that actually was a Ranger have to say on the matter, the reality is the commander's of troops like that believe that because they're "elite" they deserve more lee way than regular troops, which is the point behind Cole's book that the two hosts of the podcast agreed with. Here on KZfaq enter "The Team House Code Before Country", I doubt you'll believe what you're saying after listening to it.

So 101st are uhnnn rangers too right.. *runs away*

My first BC and CSM both had combat scrolls. Tough as nails even in the latter stages of their careers.

What’s the difference between a combat scroll and a regular one? How can you tell the difference?

I worked and lived near benning. Would surprise a lot of the guys when I asked which they were and knew the difference

@@DefinitelyNotATroLLLL Position on the uniform. Current unit patch is worn on the soldier's left shoulder. The unit that the soldier deployed to a combat zone with is worn on soldier's right shoulder. The coolest combat patch when I was in in the early 90s was the Vietnam era "Airborne Ranger" scroll that was authorized and made in S.Vietnam for copy.

Can’t have alcoholics doing that job man. Especially since he could have killed someone such as a child or at least paralyzed another human being.

@@TheInfantry98 hate to break it to you but combat arms is literally just all alcoholics.

@@TheInfantry98 Anyone who has spent any time in Regiment knows Ranger's love to drink, break rules and try to get away with it. Drinking, fighting, f****** is a Ranger past time. Just because he got a DUI doesn't mean he was an alcoholic, it just means he made a mistake, that unfortunately got him RFSed.

@@Lycurgus47 So much so that every Army post has that special building called a Class Six.

@@TheInfantry98 I wasn't a Ranger but I'm a combat infantryman with a CIB and I can tell you the majority of us combat arms guys love to drink. I just killed my 15 year addiction to it.... The man made a mistakes. I got an article-15 and the number of higher ups that came up and said they had one as well and to not let it get me down and to keep soldiering on was shocking, I'm talking AMAZING leaders. Point is we all make mistakes.

I disagree , class 2-91, being assigned and serving just one day before getting ousted doesn't make you a Ranger, wth, who the hell is they is the question mark?

Explained perfectly above. When I went through back in '06, it was RIP (instead of RASP I for enlisted/ RASP II for officers), the difference between being considered an actual Ranger was completing Ranger School (tab) AND being selected with RIP (scroll). 3/75/C

@@alankey766 question, I was in 93-99 and to go to Ranger school as enlisted you had to have a feeder MOS to RR such as 11 series, 13F, commo, medic, etc. if your MOS wasn’t in RR MTOE you could not even apply for school. Is it still that way?

@@bpdp379 I think what you mean is you need to have a feeder MOS to get in RR, to go to Ranger Leadership School your unit just needs a slot. You very well could go to Ranger School and not have a MOS that can get you in the 75th. There are very few changes from when I was in in the early 90's to now. My son is in Regiment right now, most changes are terminology RIP/RASP. The beret thing still pisses me off though!! LOL

This guy drilled it. When I was in they had a name for it I can't remember, something like "rolled or scrolled." But I don't think that's it. For my 2009 Afgh tour, my platoon serg, 1st serg, and troop commander, all QUALIFIED but not rangers. Also, nobody wore their tan caps for being qualed, only d o uch bags did that.

That is a solid choice.

Got rid of the high & tight. I didn't show up til 06 after his time there, but I'll be forever grateful.

Interesting. I remember him as an E-5 over in A 2/75 in the early 1980's. I remember him as a good soldier even back then.

Nick Irving of US Army SOF, Rangers. The Reaper 💀.

@@DavidLLambertmobile they are both great, but a I feel like Shawn tries to get more unknown guys on here. Rob O’Neil was really the only veteran that I can think of that was really well known before Shawn’s show.

John lovell loves himself too much, I rather have someone more like this guy.

I have some friends that were in Ranger batt that had to work with John Lovell... they all said he was just annoying. I'll pass that interview. I'd listen to John "Shrek" Mcfee

As long as he doesn’t harp on Christianity too much, would love the listen

Thanks nephew

@K.M.V S hahaha

My dad jumped into Grenada in October 1983 with the 2nd battalion . His friend Mike hotwired a bulldozer that was left on the runway and used it was an armored vehicle. Operation Urgent Fury

I was in the 82nd abn during Grenada. Good times. Seems like yesterday. All the best. ​@@BSCTrainerRob

Former AFSOC pilot here. You hit a huge truth on the advantages of SOCOM having budgets to maintain that high level of proficiency required to execute complex missions like airfield seizures. As a gunship pilot, our training load out consisted of 2,000 rounds of 20mm HEI SP,, 96 rounds of 40mm HEI Sp and 20 rounds of 105mm HE or WP. That load alone cost around $14,000 just for the ammo and most left seat pilots would do this 3-4 times a month, albeit often splitting the load with another pilot. No blue training rounds for us!

GBs werent made for killing. they were made for insurgencies.

I guess the Delta guys blend in better? If I met this guy I would have no idea who he was.

Truth 👆Dad and both uncles dealt with tabs. One was a jumpmaster teaching them to jump, dad ran through the jungle with one with an academy ring, other was a tank commander saying NO to a superior officer tabbed. A platoon of his tanks being ordered around by a "ranger", 😂Screw that shit talk to the CPT I've got a radio for you CPT 🤣That happened during the Tet offensive 1LT telling off a CPT. Don't change the game plan in the middle of the game unless you're the quarterback.

@@ScrappyXGC I was in 82nd. There’s a lot of tabbed guys who go to the school and come back. But you have to be careful bc you never know who was in regiment and who wasn’t so you can’t go around claiming it.

@@jlee6146 Truth. Yea, dad's 2LT with the tab and the academy ring may have gone through the training, no way assigned. Do damn young, like you said never in the regiment. Same with my uncle in leading a tank platoon, they don't assign rangers to tanks, CPT just took some time stateside to go to school. My other uncle (I think he was 82nd too) taking supposed rangers up for training scenario had to walk down the line to double check them make sure they don't just jump out. Again so green, no way any time in a regiment. They should have already learned how to jump at least basically and know what to do. He was always pissed about the kids who thought they were better than him. I just looked at the patches, yea 82nd. He always jumped every time, last one out so he could watch them hit, didn't matter who was jumping or why, rain or shine, day or night. Ended up with one leg 1/2" shorter than the other, moved to be work on helos with a wedge in his boot. Became a crew chief. I am so glad people warned me about people who overstate what they've done/are. I'm sure you've got a bunch of stories of your own. All my family does 😂

A person who graduates Ranger School is 'Ranger Qualified'. They are NOT a Ranger. A Ranger is someone who serves as a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment. It's the difference between a tab and a scroll.

What company at 3/75 were you at?

What? Don’t the other US forces do long range foot movements? They ought to start training for that considering how difficult it is to concentrate vehicles nowadays without getting spotted

Delta Force is US Army Special Forces, green berets, the Ranger Regiment is an entirely different unit.

@ArmyVet82ndABN Hey airborne, you might need to actually listen to the interview then reread what I said. Won't be in need of an MTOE breakdown either.

@@jwbures I listened to it nowhere in it does it say he was in Delta Force. Being a Ranger is one thing but he wasnt in Special Forces I looked it up.

@armyvet82ndabn15 the title says “Why a Delta Force Operator was kicked out of the Ranger Regiment”

He deserved it, should have been discharged

Yes it does. I joined in the fall of 81 and was among the last to be issued the olive drab fatigues. At Ft Benning, I started seeing new guys up the road in BDU’s. As soon as I got to my unit in Germany, I had to buy camouflage BDU’s that the army decided were better for combat, so I could go to the field and spend a great deal of time, covering them up with olive drab chemical suits.

Grey men,don't stand out,be the guy that gets overlooked then kill everyone in the room,was how it was described in a book about the SAS.

Genuine high speeds are just normal dudes with a warrior mindset.

The nail that stands out gets whacked. A friend of mine was a SEAL who did a few tours in Vietnam.... Yeah you'd think he's a dumb farmer from his looks. He's actually a Genius Level IQ individual who considers himself a "Warrior". I will never forget the time he pulled out 4 different handguns and set them on the coffee table while we smoked pot and drank beer. That was his way (Disarming) of saying he Loved Us and felt Comfortable in our presence

@@eyefreely9682 You sure he was actually a SEAL? The handgun thing is SUS.

I'm pretty sure I know the guy that I went camping with and taught me Kung Fu. Not to mention all the partying. His traumas are something else. One of those guns he TOOK off a guy who tried to rob him. His exact words, "If he would have been white, I would have caught him. @@jenniturtleburger3708

2nd Batt had the best DFAC on Ft Lewis in the 80's.

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...🐂💩

Do u recommend high rep bodyweight calisthenics or weightlifting?

@@DarkObfuscation No. You will be living off of a ration a day and the right build for the job is "wiry." Slender, but muscular. Get a rucksack and start walking (a lot) Your leg strength is far more important than your arms.

@@DarkObfuscation Look at the French Foreign Legion. Those guys are skinny, but strong with long-term stamina. You want lean muscle like a marathoner, not bulk, which will just weigh you down and make it harder on your joints and performance. You want to be able to go the distance, not a one rep max.

Thank you for our 8 years, though. Still above and beyond what many are willing to give.

Slop jocky!! That was one of the best dfacs in the army tho

So you peaked early in life, huh?

Great read and insight, thank you.

I showed up to the 700 block bldg,s on Stewart straight from jump school , 3 days later I was humping in the woods around Camp Oliver in RIP, I remember the move from Stewart to Hunter in Savannah , RLTW !!!!

Chattavegas Baby

What unit? I was with 3/4 Cav on Conn Bks. 90-93. I was an armor officer; graduated Ranger School in February ‘90. Great training. I still have nightmares! 😂

@@seanmccarthy1135 2/15 Ledward barracks. Our unit was 1/30 when I got there but then changed to 2/15 inf which I never understood.

@@bon3y4rd did you know LT Butter or Rosenfeld? They may have been 1/15. We had M1s and M3A2s. Two Troops were Air Cav, scouts and killer birds. It was a fun unit. I missed the border camp tours. You may have done them? Did you guard the QRS site?

@@seanmccarthy1135 Those names don't ring a bell but I honestly can't remember who our platoon leader was. He was young. We all liked him because he would train with us instead of just observe like some of the other officers did. I was there when the wall came down. I have two pretty large pieces of it still. I'm not sure about border camp tours? We pulled guard pretty much everywhere at one time or another.

2-69 Scout Platoon, 3rd Brigade 3rd ID 2000'-04'

Difference being quantity over quality, appealing to enough individuals willing to do the job even conceptually; also the resources necessary to train at either respective level.

Not saying what you said is untrue or regular army isn't important or respected, but not wanting to be around those fat bodies should motivate you or others to chase something elevated so you are surrounded by higher achievers and standards.

Yeah it’s definitely true. One thing that didn’t get touched on though, and it may be unit dependent so it wasn’t his experience; is that those fat bodies are shamed into oblivion in competent units. 2/325 82nd was stellar, weaklings got identified quick and either made not so weak or weeded (chaptered) out. But yeah the baseline in SOF is so much higher. We loved getting guys from Ranger Batt, hell even just motivated guys that didn’t make it through RASP or SFAS were typically well ahead of AIT/jump school guys.

All for nothing man and an absolute waste

@@TheInfantry98 Yah no kidding. 2015 was a rough year watch isis fill the vacuum and destroy everything we accomplished in NW Iraq.

Amazing outlook, man.

Hey something similar to me except I was an FMF Corpsman. I got booted from cryptology school for underage drinking and got sent to be a corpsman. Boom got hit with an IED on my last deployment.

That seems like a rough road to a family

The services seem to think that kicking people out of a vital mos pipeline is only punishing the miscreant. This is not the way to run a railroad.@@roachfan243

@@roachfan243are you alright ish bro?

Some of the best guys I knew got dropped for one reason. Or another eventually. Hard community to join, but much harder to stay in. Injuries happen.

Don't dwell on that shit, I had Airborne school in My contract and went through the entire school, then busted My ankle on the 2nd jump. I finally wound up in 101st Airborne Infantry. I got My Air Assault wings and a Arcomm for a gunner. Don't let it get to you, you did your time and protected our great country!

​@@unclecreepy8343 whatever helps you get to sleep at night loser🤣

Don't live with regret. You served. You were a grunt. There is absolutely no shame in that

Hey man, if it means anything to you, nobody watches wrestling anyway.

@@brandonbell900 dawg😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Crap

I was in 2d Batt in the early 1980's. At that time, A DUI was survivable for an enlisted guy or junior NCO, depending on circumstances. If there was no serious accident you could probably get by with it. It wasn't a good thing but it wasn't fatal. I remember one guy had one as a buck sergeant. He got so drunk he stopped his car and fell asleep in the middle of a rural highway out towards Mount Ranier. He got put on Anabuse, a drug that makes you wretch uncontrolably if you ingest alcohol. He was not DXed and ultimately became a Sergeant Major. There were a lot of NCOs who were alcoholics. The one thing that was a lot less tolerated was anything drug related. DUI would kill off an officer's career. When I first arrived at Battalion from RIP, they were on deployment to Alaska so I was on rear detachment with a few guys who were either new guys like me or were returning from schools. We were supposed to get a new platoon leader who had come over from the 82nd. I met him briefly. A few days later he got a DUI. That was it. The black chinook came for him. He was gone before the company got back from Alaska. I guess he went to 9th ID. DUI would be a career ender for an officer. I think he was a West Pointer and had a successful stint as a platoon leader in the 82nd. Officer assignments in a Ranger Battalion were coveted but I imagine he got out after he did his required five years. A DUI was basically career poison. In 1980, the public attitude toward drunk driving was a lot more permissive than it would be even a decade later. So the army was the same. The same was true of adultery. Having a relationship with another Ranger's wife might get you shot, and would very likely get you kicked out of Battalion, but it would not get you kicked out of the army. I understand that changed a few years later. The army became much less tolerant of such things.

On the low doesn't work when u use it in this context. It's too obviously an attempt to sound cool or something

⁠@@doesntmatter4477☝️🤓 lmao resident expert on “cool”

@@Peppermint988 Great book. He and Billy Waugh are now knocking back a couple of cold ones in Valhalla.

As you should be

Bro, you're paratrooper!

@@gustavono8251 thank you brother

Every paratrooper is a grunt once they land.

@@gustavono8251it’s open for debate. Generally, however, a paratrooper has been on “jump status” (received hazardous duty pay) for a period of time, usually at least 3 years. There is definitely a difference between a 5-jump chump and a guy who has been on jump status.

Hooah brother AATW! B co 307th Combat Engrs 82nd.

i gOt tWO wUrK wiT dA aRMiE mArKsMAnsHit tEeM.. fOuR A weAk🤡

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​@@dudedog884 lol, didn't know youtube translates eboniks

@@gcam7103 LaUGh oUT LoUd DiDeNt nO U tUBe tRaInsLAtes *eBOnICks

Likewise! Great organization!

Bullshit. They all couldn't stand you.

Ranger Recon

@@ssgus3682 Yup thanks

@@thenotoriousvlog5986 no problem the Ranger Regiment is smart to keep their Recon teams. The conventional Army disbanded LRSD teams at the division and Corps level which I think was a mistake.

But hunter biden can do coke in the White House 😂

Nick Irving. He was a Sniper & later PMC. Irving wrote a few novels too.

This guy went on the the Unit later in his career. The title of the video is a bit misleading if you aren't familiar with him.