Certain information should still remain in them, though. If you claim to have been a Ranger, there should still be records that you went to that training.
Oh, absolutely. I agree. I’m just saying that not everything appears in your military records. There are several items of note that won’t ever appear in mine, for good reason. On the other hand, I don’t go around “bragging” about it either. lol
As for training and such, some certainly does appear, some doesn’t, depending on what it was, but things like being a Ranger or Seal would appear - though if I remember my friend’s stuff, it doesn’t actually say “SEAL”, but it has some information about the training program that he went through. I’d have to ask him — but he’s another that wouldn’t brag about it, and probably wouldn’t tell you if you asked him directly, he might even lie to you about it :)
“If you claim to have been a Ranger, there should still be records that you went to that training.”
Many Rangers like Duncan Hunter never attended the school, and they were not awarded the tab.
I had a friend that was awarded the Special Forces tab in Vietnam although he never attended the course, that was verified by Sgt Gordon Rottman, who my friend and I served under in an Airborne Ranger LRRP later LRS National Guard unit.
I went through an accelerated course at Recondo School in November of 1967 with my platoon from F/51 and one from E/20. We did it all except for the patrol at the end, skipping the patrols so that the companies could be fully operational sooner. We are not entitled to the Recondo patch even though we completed all requirements except for that training patrol and our job was running Recondo missions.
In 1969, I was Team Leader of TM 17, with O/75, with the 3rd Bde of the 82nd. We were a Ranger company, but I never saw Ranger School and am not entitled to the Ranger tab. I believe Duncan Hunter is a Ranger in the same way.
That’s not like some clown claiming to have been Rambo when he wasn’t even Gomer Pyle. It’s a strange sickness, this wannabe thing.
Michael Frazier