Dan's Airborne Ranger Photos
Page #3: Rangers on and off duty

This site is dedicated to all Airborne Rangers who have served in any of the U.S. Army Ranger units. But especially to those who have given that final full measure of devotion.

I have tried to balance the resolution of the pics vs download speed so that your screen refresh is as fast as possible.

If there are any images that you would like to see in high res., Email me a note and I will either post it here, or email a copy of it back to you.

These first four were sent to me by Will Elias (AKA Sgt Eli).

Mark Bucksath (on the left with glasses) and "Eli" on the right.

Crow (his hands anyway) and Sgt Eli (might've been a CPL there, not sure) running through a snap-shooting dry fire excercise with magazine exchange.

"Eli" at Huck Creek (a PFC then).

  1SG Mattoon and our HALO team.

Back Row: SGT Eli, SSG Ginniff, SFC Mattoon, SSG Franz (the Sontay Raider Wannabe)
Front Row: SGT Lassiter (HALO School and skydiving buddy), SGT Pulizzi, SGT Wheeler, SFC Palacios (reclined), SGT Gutting

Ingve (Ing’ va) Stjerna sent us this picture he took. If you like it, please let him know at <istjerna@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>. The photo was taken in February of 1995 near Munich at the German "paratrooper school".

According to Ingve, in the German army you have to participate in a ground training for 11 days before you are allowed to jump (the training is divided into 11 days of ground training and 5 days of jumping, you have to do 5 jumps to pass the training of instruction and get the paratrooper insignia in bronze). He made the photo on the first day of jumping (officially, photographing is strictly forbidden but he had succeeded in smuggling his camera into the machine).

Sounds very similar to the way we do it. 

Foxy Holes                                                     Ranger Bosley Takes a Stance

   Ranger Frick Shows Paul McCaughey the Finer Points of Handling the M1911A1

     As Far As Paul McCaughey Is Concerned, Nothing Beats a Saturday Fun Jump

   Chris Ortwein (AKA "Schween") Leads The Way!

   Ranger Tom Burkette At Huck Creek

   Agressor Averitt

  SSgt Al Kovacik Really Digs His Work 

Sgt Silk Experiences "The Morning After" during Reforger'77

Carlos Merced At Huck Creek and Getting A Haircut

   Ranger Malloy As An Agressor

    Sgt Taylor Asks "Do I Really Look Like That?"

   Ranger Dan Koczeski