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DashOneBravo

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6. They actually are real Infantry

Reply to TEB (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 25, 2018, 07:09 PM

Apr 2018

My roommate in Jump School was from the 3rd Infantry Regiment. He’d just finished Ranger School and they would smoke him for being a “leg Ranger”.

The Old Guard has to pass the same tests that Infantry units do. They even have one Batt that’s a Stryker unit.

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