The Making Of A Ranger

Author : Chuck Luttrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979505553
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Ranger written by Chuck Luttrell and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Park Rangers are frequently asked two questions What do rangers do? How do you get to be a ranger? The short answer: Everything and it isn't easy. Chuck Luttrell thought he knew from watching his family friend, John Riffey, the longtime ranger on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, going about his business every summer. But times have changed and so does a ranger during his or her career. In The Making of a Ranger, Chuck chronicles his postings and the varied tasks he undertakes as law enforcer, fireman, medic, and rescuer whether on lakes, deserts, snow-covered mountains, or back roads. He acknowledges some successes and some failures which invites readers to wonder how they would cope with the various incidents he has faced. The conclusions he comes to about the rest of his Park Service career are not the ones he expected when he set out to master all the skills necessary to protect nature and the park visitors from each other and themselves. Chuck's Park Service career took place mostly in parks with lakes such as Lake Meredith in Texas and Lake Mead NRA with some dry but hot assignments on the Shivwits plateau and Chaco Canyon's Harmonic Convergence.

Author : Dick Couch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425253600
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sua Sponte written by Dick Couch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sua Sponte Latin for “Of Their Own Accord” The 75th Ranger Regiment’s Motto Army Rangers are not born. They are made. The modern 75th Ranger Regiment represents the culmination of 250 years of American soldiering. As a fighting force with our nation’s oldest and deepest tradition, the Regiment traces its origins to Richard Rogers’s Rangers during the prerevolutionary French and Indian War, through the likes of Francis Marion and John Mosby, to the five active Ranger battalions of the Second World War, and finally, to the four battalions of the current Ranger regiment engaged in modern combat. Granted unprecedented access to the training of this highly restricted component of America’s Special Operations Forces in a time of war, retired Navy captain Dick Couch tells the personal story of the young men who begin this difficult and dangerous journey to become Rangers. Many will try, but only a select few will survive to serve in the 75th Ranger Regiment. Sua Sponte follows a group of these aspiring young warriors through the crucible that is Ranger training and their preparation for direct-action missions in Afghanistan against America’s enemies, anywhere, any time, and under any conditions. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

Author : Ace Atkins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101516100
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ranger written by Ace Atkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST NOVEL IN ACE ATKINS’ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING QUINN COLSON SERIES. “In Quinn Colson, bestselling author Ace Atkins has created an American hero in a time when we need him.”—C. J. Box After years of war, Army Ranger Quinn Colson returns home to the rugged, rough hill country of northeast Mississippi to find his native Tibbehah County overrun with corruption, decay, meth runners, and violence. His uncle, the longtime county sheriff, is dead. A suicide, he’s told, but others—like tomboy deputy Lillie Virgil—whisper murder. In the days that follow, it’s up to Colson to discover the truth, not only about his uncle, but about his family, his friends, his town, and himself. And once it’s discovered, there’s no going back for this real hero of the Deep South.

Author : Ben Blum
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385538448
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ranger Games written by Ben Blum and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gloriously good writer...Ranger Games is both surprising and moving...A memorable, novelistic account."—Jennifer Senior, New York Times Intricate, heartrending, and morally urgent, Ranger Games is a crime story like no other Alex Blum was a good kid, a popular high school hockey star from a tight-knit Colorado family. He had one goal in life: endure a brutally difficult selection program, become a U.S. Army Ranger, and fight terrorists for his country. He poured everything into achieving his dream. In the first hours of his final leave before deployment to Iraq, Alex was supposed to fly home to see his family and beloved girlfriend. Instead, he got into his car with two fellow soldiers and two strangers, drove to a local bank in Tacoma, and committed armed robbery... The question that haunted the entire Blum family was: Why? Why would he ruin his life in such a spectacularly foolish way? At first, Alex insisted he thought the robbery was just another exercise in the famously daunting Ranger program. His attorney presented a case based on the theory that the Ranger indoctrination mirrored that of a cult. In the midst of his own personal crisis, and in the hopes of helping both Alex and his splintering family cope, Ben Blum, Alex’s first cousin, delved into these mysteries, growing closer to Alex in the process. As he probed further, Ben began to question not only Alex, but the influence of his superior, Luke Elliot Sommer, the man who planned the robbery. A charismatic combat veteran, Sommer’s manipulative tendencies combined with a magnetic personality pulled Ben into a relationship that put his loyalties to the test.

Author : Andrea Lankford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762762683
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ranger Confidential written by Andrea Lankford and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twelve years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol horse. She jumped into rescue helicopters bound for the heart of the Grand Canyon. She won arguments with bears. She slept with a few too many rattlesnakes. Hell yeah, it was the best job in the world! Fortunately, Andrea survived it. In this graphic and yet surprisingly funny account of her and others’ extraordinary careers, Lankford unveils a world in which park rangers struggle to maintain their idealism in the face of death, disillusionment, and the loss of a comrade killed while holding that thin green line between protecting the park from the people, the people from the park, and the people from each other. Ranger Confidential is the story behind the scenery of the nation’s crown jewels—Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Great Smokies, Denali. In these iconic landscapes, where nature and humanity constantly collide, scenery can be as cruel as it is redemptive.

Author : Lemuel A. Garrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Ranger written by Lemuel A. Garrison and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lemuel A. Garrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780935704181
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Ranger written by Lemuel A. Garrison and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bill Shanahan
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780306812736
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stealth Patrol written by Bill Shanahan and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2003-10-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting Vietnam memoir that takes you behind enemy lines with the U.S. Rangers as they hunt their foe in one dangerous mission after another

Author : Jimmy Blackmon
Publisher : Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1682619826
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ranger School written by Jimmy Blackmon and published by Knox Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through colorful dialogue and vivid storytelling for which Jimmy Blackmon has been praised, the reader will take a journey through Ranger School. From the nervous anticipation leading up to the course, to the extreme pain and suffering Ranger School demands, Jimmy shares the feelings and emotions that accompany extreme sleep and food deprivation. Furthermore, he shares what he learned about himself along the way. Before you can lead others, you must first learn to lead yourself. Ranger School is designed to replicate the extreme nature of combat in a multitude of environments. The attrition rate is over 50 percent. Every ranger student experiences a low moment where they want to quit and walk away. Jimmy openly shares how he dealt with extreme hunger, exhaustion, below freezing temperatures, and ultimately, a desire to quit and end the suffering. The reader will be fascinated, not only with what one must go through to attain the coveted Ranger tab, but at how ranger students deal with such harsh environments—many times in very humorous ways. Despite all the aforementioned challenges, Ranger students must lead one another on complex missions in harsh terrain in order to succeed. How to motivate, inspire, and lead in such an extreme environment is powerful and will appeal to leaders of all types and in all industries.

Author : Kate Messner
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545639166
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rescue on the Oregon Trail (Ranger in Time #1) written by Kate Messner and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Ranger! He's a time-traveling golden retriever who has a nose for trouble . . . and always saves the day! Ranger has been trained as a search-and-rescue dog, but can't officially pass the test because he's always getting distracted by squirrels during exercises. One day, he finds a mysterious first aid kit in the garden and is transported to the year 1850, where he meets a young boy named Sam Abbott. Sam's family is migrating west on the Oregon Trail, and soon after Ranger arrives he helps the boy save his little sister. Ranger thinks his job is done, but the Oregon Trail can be dangerous, and the Abbotts need Ranger's help more than they realize!