Here’s an introduction of Michelle:

My name’s Michelle and I want to be the next Ranger Up Girl because I want to show my support and appreciation for our amazing troops who sacrifice so much in order to protect and serve our country.  Of all the companies that are supporting our troops, you guys caught my eye because you’re professional but you obviously know how to have fun.  I’m a nurse who’s waiting at home for her husband who’s on his second tour of duty and I want to be a reminder to him and his fellow soldiers that we love you, support you, and we’re waiting for you back home!

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A native of Arkansas, she is proud to represents the AF.

Hey! My name is Heather Dyre. I am 22 years old and I am a model out of Arkansas. I think that I would be a great ranger-up girl! I love helping people that help others. I think that the soldiers deserve this. They have so much to help our country. Leaving behind family’s, not knowing if they will get to see them again. I would love to be the one to show the soldiers how much we appreciate everything they are and have been doing to keep everyone else safe! I have a lot of friends over seas fighting for out country. These guys don’t get to see hot girls for a long time, so when they are injured and feel like no one cares, I would like to be the one to show them that everyone cares and talk with them when they feel like they have no one else. I wanna show these soldiers that they are the bravest people in the world to do what other people can’t. I would like to affiliated with the Air Force or you pick!

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Maggie’s pictures are coming soon!

Make a sure to keep a close eye on this page as we’ll be rolling out the images of her recent photo shoot with us in the comign weeks.

We’re planning on increasing our photo shoots in the near future, but need your help!

We aim to take photos of every beautiful, military-supporting female in the world.

Seriously.

Well, you know what we mean.

Here is a message from Maggie that she’d like us to share with you:

I am an outgoing, determined, get what I want kind of girl! Growing up on a farm in a small town in Iowa, I have learned you have to work hard to play hard. At the age of three I found my love of dance and being in the spotlight. I grew up entertaining the crowd with my sassy, carefree spirit that everyone loves.

I consider myself one of the lucky ones; I married a Marine. Marrying my husband, I not only married a wonderful man but I also married the Marine Corps and I am very grateful my husband is part of such an elite group of people. I have met some of my closest friends and in last four and half years that I’ve been a Marine wife. Living on a Marine Corps base surrounded by the Marines and their family insinuates being able to live alongside the true American heroes.

After relocating to the D.C. Metropolitan area with my husband, I have had the opportunity to meet some wonderful people who have introduced me to MMA fighting. After attending my first live MMA fighting event, I fell in love with the sport and became an MMA ring girl! My devotion to pushing myself to be all I can be has allowed me to accomplish my goals in life as well as my fitness goals. I am very committed and love to exercise on a daily basis.  My strict workout routine has made me a strong, confident, successful young lady.

When I am not working my day job as an Office Assistant for a Real Estate Management Company or at the gym I enjoy spending my time with my husband and my two adorable puppies. On the weekends you are sure to find me out socializing with friends at a night club, bar, and of course at MMA fighting events!

Semper Fidelis

Maggie

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Cori, otherwise known as Miss Navy, has been an awesome addition to the Ranger Up team, having supported Alex at the UWC show, sent tons of ideas our way, including sketching out shirt ideas for women, and letting the other girls borrow makeup and clothing at the photoshoot.

Let her know that you support her as much as she supports you!

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I met a lot of pretty awesome people in Koln, Germany at UFC 99. Among them is Suzy, the lovely young British lady in this picture. Suzy is good friends with Cole Miller, who I had spent the previous night drinking with until 6:30 in the morning before we dined on a nutritious late night meal of Doner Kabob which I bought to console him after Cole’s ATM card was eaten by the Geldautomat.

Actually, none of that matters. The point of this post is Suzy and our never-ending quest for Ranger Up girls. While we just had an awesome Ranger Up girl contest and had five awesome ladies join the team, it occurred to me that we have no British representation, and as Uncle Argyle told Mel Gibson in Braveheart, “That’s somethin’ we’ll have ta remedeee”.

Anyway, when I asked her if she wanted me to post her picture on the website, she told me no one would want her picture up there. At first I thought she was just fishing for compliments, but then realized she genuinely didn’t think you clowns would want her pictured here. Good lord, we just found a beautiful girl who doesn’t have an ego about it. One point.

Next, my buddy Reed, who actually has the term “Decision Scientist” on his business card (I know, I know) made some terrible physics joke. Not only did she laugh, but she trumped his science joke with a better one. We realized she was much smarter than we are. Two points.

Finally, I asked her how she met Cole. She replied that she was a fighter. (Inner monologue: Are you freakin’ kidding me? This girl is pretty, smart, and a bad ass?) Three points. Game. Set. Match.

This would have been a good time for me to say something cool, that would, you know, help in my quest to get her to be the British Ranger Up girl, but instead, in my shocked-I-cannot-believe-she-just-said-she-was-a-fighter-and-by-the-way-I-am-drunk alternate reality, I said, “But you don’t have fighter face.”

She should have kicked me in the balls, walked away, or submitted me embarrasingly in front of Cole while I screamed in pain, but instead she just said, “Thanks” and proceeded to make fun of me. This was essentially the equivalent of tearing the guy’s spine out at the end of the game Mortal Combat. She had already won – now she was just showing off.

If that’s not Ranger Up material, I am not sure what is.

If you agree with me, and believe we need some British representation, please leave Suzy a comment!

(And while you’re at it, tell Cole he is the man…)

Updated April 21, 2009

Congratulations to Alex, the Next Ranger Up Girl!

As the resounding favorite, Alex will be attending UWC 6 on April 25th as the official Ranger Up Ring Girl and will be more visible in the coming months as she’s featured in her own page on the Rhino Den.

In case you missed it, here are Alex’s submittal pictures. We’ll have more soon!

Congratulations also to the Winning Ladies of the Armed Services.

Here are the winners for Miss Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force:

Miss Army: Michelle

Miss Navy: Cori

Miss Marines: Maggie

Miss Air Force: Heather

Congratulations to all of the new ladies of Ranger Up! Over the coming months, we’ll make sure to post new images from events and photo shoots.

Again, thanks to all of you who voted. You had a direct hand in choosing the next Ranger Up Girl.

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Updated April 14, 2009

We’ve reached our final list of eight candidates. Thanks to all of you who cast your vote in the past week!

Here are our final seven ladies. Over the coming week, we’ll be asking our guest judges to give us their favorites. We’ll be announcing the next Ranger Up Girl, as well as the winning ladies for each branch of service.

1. Ashley
2. Stephanie
3. Michelle
4. Heather
5. Cori
6. Maggie
7. Makhetsi
8. Alex

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Posted: April 7, 2009

Time to Vote for the Next Ranger Up Girl!

Thanks to all of the beautiful ladies who took the time to put together photos and an essay. After hundreds of submissions, we’ve whittled the list down to 25. Your feedback is directly guiding our decision, so make sure to cast your vote! As a very public process, passing on a link to this page and survey is a great way to make sure the girl you want to win gets selected.

So, get started! Here’s how:

1. Click HERE to open the survey link (it will open in a new window)
2. Using the slideshow below, go through all 25 of our beautiful ladies. MAKE SURE TO GO THROUGH THE ENTIRE LIST, as these are in no particular order.

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In case you missed it, click HERE to open the survey for the next Ranger Up Girl.

After you vote, here’s a little more info as to how the final decision will be made:

Phase 1 – April 7-12:

Cast Your Vote for your vote for the Top Ranger Up Girl as well as your choice for the top girl for each military branch.

Phase 2: April 12-15

We’ll gather everyone’s feedback and the Ranger Up guys, along with some help from our blog friends, will decide which ladies will be the future Ranger Up Girls by the second week of April.

Below is a list of all candidates with their corresponding photos and essay. MAKE SURE TO READ THE ESSAYS, as their written presentation is a big factor in our consideration.

As a reminder, here’s what we’re looking for in our next Ranger Up Girl(s):

Cool - comfortable both in the public eye and private eye, she needs to be fun and intriguing
Gorgeous - DUH, but notice we somehow managed to not make it #1
Humble - hard to tell from the written word, we’re looking for a woman that’s at home in front of the camera but is also able to sit down and talk easily with our wounded soldiers.

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Below posted March 24, 2009

We’ve heard the message from you loud and clear.

We need more Ranger Up Girls and we need them now.

Well, Ranger Up is pleased to announce the first ever Ranger Up Girl Contest!

Who: Cool, patriotic, beautiful women over the age of 18 (yes, we need proof)

What: Ranger Up is looking for patriotic, cool, and, of course, beautiful women to be the next set of Ranger Up Girls!

When: We are accepting submissions from now until 3 April 2009.

Please submit your pictures, service affiliation, and paragraph at business@rangerup.com

How it works:

1. Please send your three favorite pictures. At least one should be full-body and they should be current.
2. Please send a short paragraph about why you want to be the next Ranger Up Girl
3. Let us know which service you’d like to be affiliated with (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or You Pick). At the end of this, there will be a Miss Ranger Up for each service and an overall winner. If you choose You Pick, we’ll pick.
4. If you win, the Ranger Up photo shoot that you will take part in will be a bathing suit type shoot, so please be comfortable with that kind of attire!
5. Be legitimately cool if you want to win. We love beautiful women, but the winner will have multiple opportunities to represent the company, and by extension, the men and women the company serves, so we take this seriously. Other companies might just be looking for eye candy; we’re looking for women we can be proud of…that are also eye candy.

More details:

Step 1: Submit your pictures and essay by 3 April 2009
Step 2: The Ranger Up fans vote on their favorites from 6 April to 12 April
Step 3: Ranger Up identifies the five finalists.
Step 4: Dancing with the Stars Style – Celebrity Judges comprise half the score and Ranger Up fans final vote comprise the other half
Step 5: We notify the winners and bring you out to the UWC show!

What you get if you win:

1. You will be featured on the Ranger Up website and the Rhino Den, and have visibility to thousands of Ranger Up fans.
2. You will be the featured Ring Girl at the UWC’s LIVE show in front of 500k people on April 24-26.
3. You will be featured in at least one Ranger Up advertisement in Fight! Magazine
4. You will be invited to attend VIP events representing Ranger Up throughout the year
5. You will have a strong (though not yet guaranteed) opportunity to be the Fight! Magazine girl of the month.
6. Contest Monetary Awards:
   - Miss Ranger Up – $500
   - Miss Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines – $250
7. The opportunity to hang out with the Ranger Up Guys – priceless.

Please submit your pictures, service affiliation, and paragraph at business@rangerup.com

Thanks!

The Ranger Up Guys

Official Judges:

We’ve managed to find a coalition of the willing to stare at pictures of beautiful women and make the tough decision which should be the next Ranger Up Girl. Check out these blogs and give them some support!

• Afghanistanshrugged.com
• Onemarinesview.com
• Floppingaces.net 
• Blackfive.net
• Soldiersmind.com

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Who are the Ranger Up Girls and how did YOU GUYS get them?

There is no question that this is our most frequently asked question. It has even become one of the more popular questions on many great military blogs. So here’s how it all got started:

Never Trust Girls Under the Age of 25

We had the models lined up for our first photo shoot well in advance. Many girls told us they were going to be there, and we focused on other details, like for example, building an entire bedroom in a studio, props, planning, etc. We thought we had everything locked up tight – I mean, you know, everyone said they were going to be there, so why wouldn’t they come?

Here’s why – they have no sense of responsibility. 12 hours before the shoot we basically had every girl but Kelly Bruno, who is now our first sponsored athlete, dream up some lame excuse why they couldn’t come, including “I’ve had a real hectic week”. Because they weren’t guys who we could just taunt or beat the living shit out of for failing us so miserably (Note: We don’t condone violence – this is just, you know, a term we use), we had to focus on solving the problem…so we did what any other newly minted business owner would do – we hammered back a few shots and went to some local pubs looking for talent. Our criteria were as follows:

1) Too hot to rightfully want to go out with any of us. 2) Extremely cool. 3) Pro-Military.

No Mission too Large for the Guys at Ranger Up

In two hours we met and drafted Caroline, Angela, Jenn, and Grace, all of whom did an absolutely phenomenal job.

This is the part where we could pretend to be “pimps” but that isn’t us. We just happen to be pretty fearless. Our line was seriously this lame:

“Hi, my name is Choose One: (Nick, Brad, Adam, Brian). There’s no way that I can ask what I am about to ask without this sounding like a pick-up line, but here goes: We are starting up a military apparel company and we have a photo shoot tomorrow. We had a few girls bail out at the last minute, and we need a few more people. We think you’d be absolutely perfect for our shoot. Would you be interested?”

After our “strong” opener (I know what you’re thinking – how is that pickup line not listed in the greatest of all time right next to “F*ck me if I’m wrong, but is your name Gretchen?”), you can imagine the type of responses we received:

“Are you guys for real?”

“This sounds shady.”

“I don’t know…I mean, I don’t even know you.”

Apparently, we all have a certain propensity for BS, because as I was blathering on about trusting me because of the inherent code of honor associated with the Ranger Creed (I even recited it for one girl who doubted the veracity of our identities. I’m so ashamed – I expect to take some shit over this one), I remember thinking “This is actually working.”

And work it did. Adam came through. Brian (my hero) convinced one girl to come to the shoot from his very distant location in FLORIDA, and Brad and I came up with the other two.

7 Hours Later

When you are at a photo shoot that you have a lot of money invested in, a photographer standing by, and a ton of props that you have carted to a distant location with your buddy’s truck, you don’t like to be waiting at 7:30 AM for girls to show up – especially when you met them at 1:00 AM the “night” before in a bar and they have no reason to trust you at all.

But, sure enough, the first two girls show up! Angela and Caroline were a little freaked out when they arrived because we were shooting in an industrial part of town and they had only arrived in NC the night before (Welcome!), so I invited them into the studio to meet the photographer Greg, who is a great guy, extremely professional, and an Air Force vet. This meeting should have done wonders for trust-building, but instead, the girls walked in to see the following:

1) The makeup artist was oiling up a shirtless Alex for the picture as he was sitting on the edge of the bed. 2) Kelly was pulling her shirt over her head (wearing a sports bra) but for a millisecond it appeared she was getting nekkid. (Nekkid = Naked, but with “bad” intentions).

The girls turned white, as I rushed to assure them that this was not going to be porn. Somehow they believed me, and the rest is history.

The New Girls

We just completed our second photo shoot and we’d also like to introduce you to Lindsay, Rebecca, Nikki, and Jenny. They are gorgeous and a lot of fun to work with. We hope that we’ve maintained our high standard of recruiting women that are WAY out of our league to take their clothes off for you.