Music Is My Memory
By J.E. McCollough “Thunderstruck” makes me remember the attack on Tikrit...
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Government Fails our Newly Rendered Gold Star Families
By Tommy Batboy Sunday night was not a good night for troops on the ground. A Marine was killed during a combat patrol. A platoon from 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger...
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Fast Food Workers and the Slow Death of Hard Work
By Tommy Batboy “I deserve a living wage.” D. Merritt, a 24-year-old fast food worker. I about spit coffee up on my computer when I read that quote in an...
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Hero of the Week: Weston, Missouri
Edmund Burke once wrote that all that was needed for evil to thrive was for good people to do nothing. It’s an overused and sometimes cliché thing to say, but...
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Hero of the Week Lance Vogeler
SFC Vogeler is an American Hero. Over one third of his life since this nation was attacked was spent putting rounds down range and defending the freedom we all hold...
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Ranger Up Hero of the Week Salvatore Giunta
I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade; this is the heart and soul of the Army’s Soldier’s Creed. Inside of your military’s...
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Friday Night in Houston
The game plan had been to be on our best behavior. It was the night before Tim Kennedy’s title fight. Nick had been abused, much to my amusement (Hey, I’m not...
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One Day Designer
Ranger Up is a hard place to work if you aren't a little insane. We got rid of the new guy in less than 24 hours.
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Hero of the Week: Patti Patton-Bader
Soldier's Angels is the charity of choice for Ranger Up. It all started with one Mom and a mission.
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The Dumbass Chronicles – Leave Nick Alone
by Tommy Batboy There’s an old saying that says everything happens in three’s. If that’s the case, douchebags of the world, please stay the hell away from Nick. You don’t want...
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Dumbass Chronicles – Tommy Batboy
It's been a while since the last episode in the Dumbass Chronicles. For this story, we look internally, as Tommy shares a recent story from Guard training...
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Ranger Up’s Visit to the Best Ranger Competition
“You ready to go?” Tim asked me as we climbed into his little white car. It’s the last car you’d expect an SF guy to drive, let alone an...
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NEW Story: Point du Hoc, by Tommy Batboy
After years of wanting to see it, after all the stories my old squad leader had told me, all the reading, and the privilege of talking to some of the battles...
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Hero of the Week: Captain Chesley Sullenberger
My heart dropped when the “breaking news” chime on my computer went off. The headline read “Airliner Crashes Into Hudson River.” If I was amazed after the seeing the headline
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UFC Fight for the Troops
I cringe as I see Tommy whack Lorenzo Fertitta, the billionaire casino mogul and owner of the UFC on the back with an inappropriate amount of force...
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Hero of the Week: Col. John Ripley
During the 1972 North Vietnamese Easter Offensive, it didn’t seem that far fetched an order for Captain John Ripley. He was in charge of a 600-man unit, composed mostly of South...
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Hero of the Week: The U.S. Men’s Swim Team
If you will please refer to the official Ranger Up Charter the only thing we despise more than the French are unpatriotic Americans. Simply put: the French (particularly the Parisians) suck...
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A Pox on You – The CDC’s Worst Nightmare
By Left of the Boom In the movie Resident Evil, Umbrella...
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Warrior Poetry: Taking Back What’s Mine
By Stephen Parks All of the horror Burned into the backs...
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I Have PTSD…So What?
By RU Rob I have PTSD. We all know what it is,...
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I Wrote This
Hello America, my name is Nick Palmisciano and I wrote the...
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Name the Rhino from The Damn Few Contest
Everyone loves The Damn Few and you have noticed that the hard-nosed...
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Jay says:
2005-2006 Between Baghdad and Samarra, Iraq. ...
Music Is My Memory
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Z says:
the zombies are coming... But seriously, gre...
A Pox on You - The CDC's Worst Nightmare
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Brian says:
"Common Sense": You seem to be missing the p...
Circle of Shattered Hope
