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BATTALION l/( Good Clean Fun Wednesday, October 25, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 3 A Day On The Obstacle Course With The Ranger Company D i» u t Family An Extraordinary Man — An Extraordinary Film — MARTIN LUTHER A dramatic presentation of the life and work of a man who was instrumental in turning the history of the church and the world into an entirely new direction. This film will be shown free of charge for the campus community on Sunday evening, October 29, at 8 p. m. in the Methodist Fellowship Hall. ! >This showing is co-sponsored by the Wesley Foundation, St. Mary’s Student Center, University Lutheran Chapel, UCCF, and Episcopal Student Center. We Challenge You To Be Informed About The Presidential Election. A Debate C McGOVERN Steve Dunkelberg Chairman of the Brazos County Committee to Elect McGovern NIXON O Bob Edge Comb Chairman of the 1 Brazos County Committee to Re-elect " the President Sponsored by the TAMU Philosophy Club Thursday, Oct. 26—MSC Assembly Room 7:30 p. m. By JANET LANDERS Women’s Editor You’ve all heard the joke about the farm boy who went off to A&M for four years. When he returned his father asked him what he had learned. The boy re plied, “Dad when I went off to Aggieland I couldn’t even spell engineer and now I are one.” When this reporter went off with Ranger Company last Fri day, I couldn’t even spell rappel ling and now I can perform the exercise with some degree of pro ficiency. Veteran’s Day was spent on the obstacle course going through a grueling workout with the Ran gers. The playground across the tracks may look like fun and games, but judging from my ach ing muscles and broken finger nails that is not the case. Rappelling is a mountaineering- technique used to get from a point of high elevation, most oft en a cliff, to the ground by means of descending a rope. A detailed explanation of the technique in volved is not as important as the physical and emotional stress one undergoes. We rappelled off the Bryan Fire tower on two levels. The first level being about 25 feet and the second about 60 feet. Stand ing on the edge of a 25 feet di'op is not my idea of Women’s Lib eration, but first hand experience can often lead to a broader un derstanding of the principles be hind Ranger training. Perhaps the strongest emotions I experienced were those of fear and trust. Fear because the thought of falling 60 feet is not the most pleasant one to have. Trust because of the faith I had in my instructor to guide me safely to the ground and faith that should my brake hand slip the delay man would think highly enough of me to stop my fall by creating tension and friction on the ropes. This points up two objectives of the training program. First to develop confidence in the indi vidual’s physical ability to per form and secondly to help create a team effort attitude. There had hardly been time to recover from the rappelling ex perience when it was time to tac kle the obstacle course. There are ten different obstacles on the course. These range from tunnels to crawl through, to horizontal logs to low crawl under, others to step over with hands behind the head, to a slanted vertical climb and a wall to scale. The most challenging obstacle was the 60-foot vertical climb (see left picture). This is re ferred to as the confidence climb. Any person who masters this ob stacle can definitely take pride in his accomplishment. I didn’t make it to the top. The obstacle course is instru mental in developing confidence, physical stamina and determina tion. It does require a great deal of physical ability and determina tion to complete the course. The feeling of accomplishment is fore most in one’s mind after complet ing the course. Rappelling and the obstacle course are only two of the exer cises that an A&M Ranger must go through. “The overall mission of Ran ger Company is to prepare the student to go to Airborne and Ranger Schools as well as Sum mer Camp,” commented Edward P. Rumold, Company Commander. Stiff requirements must be met to qualify as a Ranger. Of the 120 men presently in A&M’s Ran ger Company, 13 are graduates of the U. S. Army Ranger Course. This is more than any other uni versity in the nation, including West Point. Distinguished Honor Graduates from both classes of Ranger School this summer and six honor graduates are involved in the company. Distinguished Honor Graduates are Jake Betty and Rumold. A&M’s Ranger Company is named after the late President of A&M, Earl Rudder. Rudder served as a Ranger in World War H. He successfully led a battalion in securing an eribrhy fortifica tion. 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