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05-29-2009, 11:46 AM
zuludelta
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I think the honor of being Ranger Qualified may be enough for some guys. But once you earn your Ranger tab, you earn the right to be referred to as a Ranger I believe. But on paper that's probably a different story since there is a distinction between what unit you serve in.
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But I think anyone that's graduated should be called that (Ranger or Force Recon or whatever) even if not actively serving in the unit.
What happens when a soldier graduates from Ranger School is that they earn the Ranger SQI (a little alphanumeric indicator added to their MOS code) and of course, they get to wear the coveted tab. In that sense, anybody who's graduated from the Ranger School has earned the "right" to be called a Ranger. In a colloquial and everyday human resources/personnel classification context though, the term "Ranger" almost exclusively refers to the Ranger School graduates who are actually assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment and "Ranger-qualified" refers to those graduates who are assigned elsewhere. It sounds counterintuitive, but in many ways, it makes it simpler and cuts down on confusion when trying to determine where a soldier's unit is for the guys in charge of keeping track of personnel assignments.
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How do the Qualified people keep up with the training if not in an active Ranger unit? Doesn't make sense to have 'em as "back-up"s if they lose the training and don't keep up to date.
The non-75th RR soldiers who go to Ranger School aren't really meant to serve as "back-ups" for the regiment. Many of them are soldiers looking for Ranger School as a step towards career advancement while others are exceptional soldiers (or even Marines or Airmen) sent by their commanding officers for further training, and are expected to return to their "home" unit after training and bring their new expertise with them to raise the proficiency level of his unit.
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