Tim Davis is an
Army Ranger and veteran of the US Army's Special Operations Command. Davis has traveled throughout the Americas and Europe
teaching combatives, special weapons and tactics as well as
anti-terrorist training. He has lived in Central America as both
a soldier and civilian, and did freelance work for the US prior to the
invasion of Panama. Today, Davis is a staff member at
ArmyRanger.com and an established author of the
military suspense novels, Day of the Ranger, The Southern Cross and
Copper Penny. An accomplished writer, Davis can now be
heard.
John D Lock is a 1982
graduate and former Assistant Professor, United States Military
Academy at West Point. He has served as both an
enlisted man and an officer. His assignments include the 1st
Armored Division, West Germany, the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort
Bragg, N.C., and Stabilization Forces (SFOR), Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina. LTC Lock is the author of
To Fight
with Intrepidity:The Complete History of the US Army Rangers 1622 to Present
and
The Coveted Black & Gold:A Daily Journey Through the US
Army Ranger School Experience. You can also read LTC Lock's
work at
www.armyranger.com.
Robert W. Black is a retired
U.S. Army colonel who served in Vietnam and with the 8th Ranger
Infantry Company (Airborne) in the Korean War. Parachute and glider
qualified, twice the recipient of the combat Infantry Badge, he was
awarded the Silver Star, three Bronze Stars—two for valor and one for
meritorious service—the Legion of Merit, the Air Medal, and sixteen
other awards and decorations. He was the founding president of the
Airborne Ranger Association of the Korean War and was inducted into
the Ranger Hall of Fame in 1995. He is the author of Rangers in
Korea,Rangers in World War II, A Ranger Born and is
currently writing the definitive history of the Rangers over the past
four hundred years and a book on Rangers in the American Civil War. He
lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
20 June 2004
What it Takes to
Wear a Ranger Scroll and Keep it On
Jeff Mellinger
is a CSM in the United States Army. CSM Mellinger has served in
various leadership roles within the 75th Ranger Regiment. As a
member of the 2nd Ranger Battalion his duties included serving as a
machine gun and rifle squad leader as well as a rifle and weapons
platoon sergeant. He served as the Command Sergeant Major
of the 1st Ranger Battalion and was a senior team leader for the 75th
Ranger Reconnaissance Detachment. His accomplishments extend
beyond the Regiment. He has served as a drill sergeant at Ft.
Gordon, an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks
and as the Commandant of the U.S. Army Alaska NCO Academy. CSM
Mellinger sets the example for others to follow.
Tim Davis
explores the potential career path of a Ranger from serving in a
Ranger Battalion to attending and passing the Special Forces
Assessment and Selection Course (SFAS). After joining the
Special Forces and passing the Special Forces Qualification Test (SFQT),
a Green Beret must then demonstrate his professionalism as only a few
will be recruited to tryout to serve among the best of the best - the
1st Special Forces Operational Detachment - Delta (SFOD-D). Does
serving in a Ranger Battalion prepare a Ranger to go SF? What
are the basic differences between the Rangers, the Special Forces and
Delta Force? Do you really want to serve with Delta Force?
GUEST: Special Forces Chief
Warrant Officer Shaun Driscoll
Chief Driscoll has served in uniform for nearly thirty
years, over twenty-three of those were in Special Operations with
the US Army Airborne Rangers and Special Forces. Chief Driscoll
worked his way up in the 2nd 75th Ranger
Battalion, earning the rank of Sergeant E-5 before moving on to
Special Forces. He served with the 10th Special Forces
Group as a heavy/light weapons and Intel NCO, reaching the rank of
Sergeant First Class. He was accepted into the Special Forces
Warrant Officers Program, and served on A-teams as both an XO and
Detachment Commander. Chief Driscoll later served as a Company
Commander for the Special Forces Warrant Officers Training
Company, a part of the 1st Special Forces Warfare
Training Group. He is an Honor graduate of the Special Forces
Language School; he speaks a minimum of three foreign languages,
as well as the graduate of several other Special Forces schools.
Chief Driscoll is the veteran of numerous special operations
missions worldwide. He currently teaches JROTC for the US Army in
Vermont.
Gary Dolan received a
B.S in Civil Engineering from the United States Military Academy in
1969 and a J.D. from New York Law School in 1977. Dolan is an attorney
licensed in the State of New York, a public accountant and a Certified
Trade Broker. Dolan's distinguished 5-year military career includes a
one-year tour of duty in Vietnam in 1970 with Company C (Ranger), 75th
Infantry (Airborne). While on active service, Dolan was awarded the
Airborne, Ranger, Jungle Warfare Expert and Combat Infantryman Badges
as well as ten Combat Air Medals, the Bronze Star and numerous other
achievement medals. He retired as an LTC from the Army Reserves. He
served as President of Company E (Long Range Patrol), 20th Infantry
(Airborne) and Company C (Ranger), 75th Infantry (Airborne)
Association, Inc. He authored the book, Of Their Own Accord, to be
published January 2004, which relates the heroics of the Rangers in
Viet Nam.
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