geauxtohell
Choose your weapon.
Well to be fair, at one time that tab was special, now just about anyone can go to Benning and get their Ranger on.
I don't know if I agree with that. The hystorical attrition rate remains above 50% (which includes recycles) and first time goes is still around 20%. I don't think the standards have really changed (minus the insane shit Charlie Beckwith used to do to Ranger Students in the late 60's. "Congratulations, you finished Florida. Now if you make the 18 mile march back to camp with all your gear, you'll graduate." Then he would make the people who didn't graduate serve steaks to the graduates. Plan up sadistic. No wonder he went on to start Delta). It's the best tactics and leadership course in the conventional Army.
Now if you wear this, which I do not, you are 3l1t3.
I've got the 25th ID patch. Short of getting it for jumping into Normandy, what makes the 101st Patch anymore elite than any other division patch?