#throwbackthursday

Trigger Warning! This is a series of posts about my personal experiences. It has nothing to do with self-defense, hand guns, or Personal Protection.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally chatted with some soldiers of the 6^th Ranger Battalion in the Oval Office shortly before he passed away from a cerebral hemorrhage.

The 6^th Ranger Battalion was deactivated shortly after the end of the War.

https://www.army.mil/article/242208/75th_anniversary_of_the_deactivation_of_the_6th_ranger_battalion

Colonel (then Major) Bull Simons was the Acting Battalion Commander at the deactivation.

Six Degrees of Separation

Colonel Simons was Deputy Commander of the “Joint Contingency Task Group,” the Special Forces soldiers who conducted the Son Tay Raid https://www.army.mil/article/241352/operation_ivory_coast_a_mission_of_mercy in 1970. Another member of the JCTG was Major (then Staff Sergeant) Thomas Powell, who received the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during the Raid. I was so fortunate as to go through Ranger School with Major Powell (then a Second Lieutenant) a few years later. He was instrumental in helping me receive an Outstanding grade for my last patrol, despite being so tired and hungry I could barely think.

I’m not sure if that gives me a connection to FDR but I am proud of the fact that I volunteered to be one of the “Original 600” of the modern era Rangers.