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Article: RANGER VETERANS GATHER ON FORT BENNING AFTER 51 YEARS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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FORT BENNING, Ga., Oct. 30 -- The U.S. Army issued the following news release:
"It certainly brings us back," said MAJ(R) Roger Messick, who coordinated the first reunion for Ranger veterans who graduated 51 years ago from the Ranger Training Brigade.
"We sit there and we see these young guys and (wonder) did we do that? Did we look that good? We thought we were the roughest people in the world at the time, but these guys, they make us proud. I see them and I just feel very, very proud - and humbled."
Of more than 200 Ranger students who joined the RTB's Class 4 in 1958, only 129 graduated. Of those, 35 made it to the class's reunion.
Coinciding with the month of their graduation, the ...