Yeah when you have to do 50 push-ups. It is actually 100. Same with sit ups. The instructor says no. So you need to do like 90. Also they keep you up all night doing push-ups and sit ups. It is difficult. I graduated class 5-97 Obviously the first few days is easy. But come mountain phase in the cold it gets harder. Or Swamp phase down if florida. It basically proves you aren't a puss. 90% of people cant say that
I went through this course in the summer of 1980. When they were introducing the instructors on the first day, SSG Ponder was taking a leak in the water under the barbed wire. Too funny. He had the strongest southern accent. Stronger than mine.
Funny how they are called rangers on the promos but in reality they never called us rangers until we actually passed the whole school, one thing for sure, best time of my life back then... I will do it all over again... 😅
