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September 2019 75Th Ranger Regiment Association, INC. Volume 31 Issue Lll PATROLLING September 2019 75th Ranger Regiment Association, INC. Volume 31 Issue lll Grenade Toss/Photo-SOJ Patrolling Sherry Klein and Sheila Dudley 2019 Ranger Rendezvous 75th RRA and USARA Banquet Photo Credit/Patrolling –SOJ CHINA—BURMA—INDIA—KOREA—VIETNAM—IRAN—GRENADA—PANAMA—IRAQ—SOMALIA—AFGHANISTAN 75th Ranger Regiment Association Editor’s Corner PO Box 348360 By Stephen Odin Johnson—Editor Sacramento, CA 95834-8360 www.75thrra.org Hello Patriots! President Thank you everyone for your timely submissions for our reading members! I Stephen O Johnson 218.333.1541 know that I send out a 4 week, 2 week, and a 1 week’s notice, but this can be [email protected] tweaked a bit to ensure that your submission is included in the mix. A sugges- First Vice President tion for you would be to sure and get a reply from me saying, “I got it!” Second- Roy Barley ly, what I can do for submissions with the 1 week’s notice, is to include a list of 716.496.8803 [email protected] all the submissions that I have. That way we can make sure that what we sent Second Vice President got there and what I got is a totally complete package of submissions. OK? Pete Dencker 615.202.4804 Another problem that has happened for this issue is that there are great arti- [email protected] cles within, but the pages being used by UDs have extended past three pages, Secretary especially with a boat load of photos to be included. Please try and limit your Tom Sove unit’s submission to three pages of size 10 font. If I get 4 pages of 12 size font I PO Box 348360 Sacramento, CA 95834-8360 can downsize that to 3 pages with a smaller 10 font. I have to keep Patrolling at C: 209.404.6394 48 pages. That’s my job and yours too. Right now we are at 52 pages. Not good. H: 916.838.6720 [email protected] What I can do, or you can request this, is to take into consideration using your Treasurer article as a feature. There was one or two that qualified as this and 4-5 pages Roger Crunk would be no problem providing everyone else is tightening their belt with three 970.858.4579 pages. Otherwise, if pinched for space, like this issue, I will send back reports to [email protected] you with having you edit to length or else telling me to do it. Your choice. Patrolling is published quarterly by the 75th Ranger Identification of issues of Patrolling has been confusing so I am changing the Regiment Association, Inc., and is mailed third class way Patrolling issues are identified from seasons (Spring, Summer, Fall, and postage under postal permit #71, Bemidji, MN. Winter) to months (March, June, September, and December). We will continue The opinions expressed by the Officers, Unit Directors, to identify issues by I, II, III, or IV with Issue I being the first issue of the year Editor and other writers are entirely their own and are and IV the last issue of the year. Look at the masthead on the front cover and not to be considered an official expression or position of you will see that Volume 31 means that this is the 31st year of Patrolling and the Association. that Issue III means this is the third issue of this year. OK, enough of that mad- ness! I am sounding more like a Rear Echelon everyday! Advertisements for products or services do not consti- The cover shows Sherry Klein and Sheila Dudley at the Ranger Rendezvous ban- tute an endorsement by the Association. Manuscripts, quet. Both, like a lot of others in our Association, are contributing to the better- photographs, and drawings are submitted at the risk of ment of the greater Ranger community. Sheila is the first woman to have been the individual submitting the material. Captions must be inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame during this year’s ceremony. Sherry, of submitted with any photographs or graphics. course, is the national coordinator of the monthly Ranger/SF breakfasts held The Officers and the Editor reserve the right to edit across the country! submissions for clarity and space constraints. Every precaution will be taken to preserve the intent and scope of the author. The Officers and Editor reserve the Thanks again everyone, for your contributions and taking me into the third year right to refuse any submission that is in bad taste, offen- as your editor. Read On! sive, or discredits unnecessarily an individual or group. Deadlines are the 15th of February, May, August, and November for the four yearly issues of March, June, I can still sense my junior high English teacher looking over my shoulder and September, and December respectively. shaking her head! Patrolling/SOJ POSTMASTER Send address corrections to: Patrolling PO Box 348360 Sacramento, CA 95834-8360 Patrolling Magazine—September Issue 2019 1 CHAPLAIN’S MESSAGE BY JOE MARQUEZ Greetings Rangers. later would preach such a convicting message to some of the very ones complicit in crucifying the Lord Jesus, that three thou- Another Ranger Rendezvous has been accomplished at Fort Ben- sand souls were converted and added to the infant Church of ning. It was good to see old friends. As I was considering what God that day. (Acts 2) Physical strength is one thing but there is to write to my fellow Rangers I found on the 75th Ranger Regi- a greater strength available to the believer in Christ as the Savior ment page of the Army website an explanation of the Ranger of sinful men. Psalms 33:13-19 tells us of God the Creator and, if ethos contained in the Ranger Creed. "Maintaining a code of you will, the Inspector General of all mankind. ethics, a Ranger philosophy to live by, the Ranger Creed written by Command Sergeant Major Neal R. Gentry would encompass The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of this philosophy and would be the hallmark of the spirit, disci- man; pline, and duty of all Rangers in peace and war." It is a high from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants standard. Some might say unattainable by mortals. Yet men of the earth, have lived and died in the attempt to live up to the Creed. One he who fashions the hearts of them all alike and observes all of the elements of this code of ethics is expressed in this way. their deeds. "Never shall I fail my comrades. I will always keep myself men- The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered tally alert, physically strong, and morally straight, and I will by his great strength. shoulder more than my share of the task, whatever it may be, one hundred percent and then some." The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue. In other words, having a willingness to be responsible to be alert, to be strong and to keep oneself morally straight and will- Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those ing to work. Yet the current fad in philosophy is to say that eth- who hope in his mercy, that he may deliver their soul from death ics are 'flexible' and that it depends on your perspective to de- and keep them alive in famine. termine right or wrong. But surely that cannot be true. I will fail God is a constant observer of all our thoughts and ways. This my comrades if I am not alert, or strong or straight, or if I am a should be a terrifying thing to those who remain resistant to the shirker. Some of us under the stress of battle have failed in one goodness of God which leads us to repent, to have a change of or more of these areas. But the thing about life is that one can mind which changes our conduct. We as men have a real prob- learn from one's failures and be restored to usefulness. My own lem "humbling ourselves under the mighty hand of God." Yet military career was checkered. I had a Company Article 15 be- this is the only way to true and lasting prosperity, "that He may fore I got out of Basic Training. I had another during my second exalt you in due time" (1 Peter 6:6). Maybe not in this moment tour in Vietnam, both of which were the direct result of disobey- but certainly in the bright future that awaits all those who hope ing standing orders. Who was responsible for this? I was! Yet in his mercy as Peter did. Failure forgiven and usefulness re- at a point when I was offered a Bad Conduct Discharge I thought, stored. This is not just the Ranger way, it is God's Way. I have borne too much suffering to let it all go to waste just to get out of a low time. I was brought face to face with my failure I would hope that this would resonate in many of our hearts to live up to standards expected of me, regardless of contrib- who realistically see the need for power to follow the One who uting factors and failure on the part of superiors. It was this fulfilled all that God asked of Him even to the death of the judgment of my misconduct, reduction of rank and forfeiture of Cross.
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