On his way through a TSA checkpoint, Kelly gets stopped. Oh shit…

Stuck in an airport bar, Kelly ponders why it is that he never took up farming…

Who says you have to wait until the sun sets to drink? Ranger Up’s World Headquarters in Raleigh/Durham is a den of gin and vermouth-laced iniquity and profanity between the hours of 1130 and 1300…

The New Year is upon us and it is time for Ranger Up’s New Year’s Resolutions…

One of Ranger Up’s writers finsd himself deployed on a moment’s notice to Haiti. He leaves us a quick message before landing ashore…

Fresh off a bad cup of coffee, Grin & Barrett takes a moment to reflect on a segment of the voting population with which he…slightly…disagrees

Lex takes a moment to remember a deployed friend during the holiday season…

Most of us drink, but do we all know why?

Grin & Barrett reflects on the all-too common military habit of grammar abuse. Don’t know what he’s referring to? Yeah…

We live in an environment for returning troops, very different from the Vietnam era. Kelly asks, “Why not say thanks to those soldiers, as well?”

Grin & Barrett never expected to find such intense peer pressure to join in the current work environment. Boy, was he wrong…

In September of 2006 when we launched Ranger Up, I stumbled upon a little website called Blackfive.net, and I started reading about this guy named Matt Burden and his band of brothers who painstakingly identified, showcased, and attacked those that would harm our nation’s troops. The best part about these guys was that [...]

A birthday message from our resident Marine, Lex McMahon…

Tim Kennedy is a piece of super human engineering. Kelly asks the question – is it REALLY fair for us to try to emulate his activities? And the resounding answer….HELL NO!