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Wednesday, October 25, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 3
A Day On The Obstacle Course With The Ranger Company
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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
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McGOVERN
Steve Dunkelberg
Chairman of the
Brazos County
Committee to
Elect
McGovern
NIXON
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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.
The American Rangers’ history
(See Rangers, page 8)
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