SF rangers or don't bother
Dont think you are speaking from experience?
You generally can’t enlist directly for SF, and Ranger Battalion billets are hard to get. And to be a Paratrooper you have to have a “Picket Fence” physical. Doesn’t take much to disqualify you.
Cavalry is a state of mind. The Army has been trying to get rid of it for 75 years but never will, because Cavalry Squadrons can do a lot of things that other units can’t do, or don’t want to do, or both.
Sure as shit, he joined. Went 19D, and just passed his fitness test and is a ceremony away from being a Soldier now. Family is down there at Ft. Benning with him now.
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Garryowen!
Calvary Scout just might be the best job in the Army. And Calvary Squadrons are always stationed way out front, on borders, or flanks, far away from Headquarters Brass. High level of Esprit, low level of BS.
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Halfway down the trail to Hell in a shady meadow green,
are the Souls of all dead troopers camped near a good old-fashion canteen,
and this eternal resting place is known as Fiddlers' Green.
Marching past, straight through to Hell, the Infantry are seen,
accompanied by the Engineers, Artillery and Marine,
for none but the shades of Cavalrymen dismount at Fiddlers' Green.
Though some go curving down the trail to seek a warmer scene,
no trooper ever gets to Hell ere he's emptied his canteen
and so rides back to drink again with friends at Fiddlers' Green.
And so when man and horse go down beneath a saber keen,
or in a roaring charge fierce melee you stop a bullet clean,
and the hostiles come to get your scalp,
just empty your canteen and put your pistol to your head
and go to Fiddlers' Green.