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10-30-2009, 11:29 AM
oliverbox
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I'm sure Duke may have been a Ranger, particularly if you try to make him current. But if he went Special Forces in 1969, the Rangers were reformed that same year, so he may have skipped it. Or done both but that's a lot of training.
I wonder how common for guys to go back to Rangers after Special Forces? I know I read in the Kill bin Laden book I read the Command Sgt Major goes back to the Rangers after Delta. I have to double check if he was a Green Beret as well.
In Eric Haney's book, "Inside Delta Force", he tells that he was the youngest Command Sergeant Major in the Army. He said that he was serving in Delta when he got the promotion, but there wasn't a slot for a CSM in Delta at that time. So he went to Panama to work with the Infantry to finish out his career.
60% of Special Forces soldiers are Ranger qualified. The way I see Duke - he's an Infantryman. He went to Ranger School, and was an excellent soldier. He went into Special Forces, but in the old days, Special Forces was the ELITE Infantry.
The way I see Duke, he's just Old School Army. He's an old Infantry soldier - Ranger qualified - who joined the Green Berets because that's where the action was. I don't think he served in the Ranger Regiment.
However, Hama had Duke working as a Ranger Instructor (with Roadblock) in "G.I. Joe Declassified". The Ranger School is technically part of the Ranger Regiment - 3rd Battalion, I believe. It's possible that Duke went back to Do a Tour as an Instructor at Ranger School. Lots of the best NCO's work as Instructors - and the RI's (Ranger Instructors) are some of the most elite, and respected reacters in the Army.
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