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02-17-2010, 02:31 AM
zuludelta
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oliverbox
Yeah, I've heard that about the Marines. They're Intel guys work pretty closely with their Recon units. They sometimes train together.
A pretty recent change with the Marines (something like within the last 10 years or so) is that now, intelligence officers(!) are put in command of scout-sniper platoons, instead of how it used to be where infantry officers were in charge of scout-sniper platoons. I'm sure there's a good reason for the change... just a little strange on the surface of it (until one considers that intelligence officers in the Corps do get a lot of what would be classed as infantry training, relative to their Army intelligence counterparts).
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Loose Cannon
I thought SF had Intel Sgts.
They do. By the time an 18X MOS soldier reaches E-7, he is eligible to take the Special Forces Intel Sergeants Course. SF doesn't have "entry-level" SF Intel sergeants, though, if that's what you're asking... all SF Intel sergeants have to be proven Weapons, Engineering, Communications, or Medical SF sergeants first and foremost.
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And then would you separate the Rangers and the Airborne Rangers?
These days, all Rangers (that is, members of the 75th Ranger Regiment) are technically "Airborne Rangers" (since Basic Airborne School is part of the training pre-reqs for Ranger School). But technically, you could have Ranger-qualified personnel (e.g., Ranger School graduates who aren't assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment) who aren't on jump status (i.e., they don't get "jump pay") if their parent unit is a non-airborne unit. They're still airborne-qualified, it's just that their unit isn't authorized to conduct airborne operations.
The distinction between "Rangers" and "Airborne Rangers" is a remnant of World War II. My grandfather fought alongside the now-defunct 6th Ranger Battalion in Luzon, and it was a Ranger unit that wasn't officially authorized for airborne operations. It was around the start of the Korean War that airborne qualification officially became part and parcel of Ranger training.
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