PAGE 10 Ranger Unit Learns Army’s Role by Thomas Milley learn what the role of the Rangers in-charge of the Behrend C-SGT ROTC-PIO are in the Army,” said Karl Rangers. “The Behrend Rangers “We give the opportunity to Slaughenhaupt, the cadet officer- are an elite group of highly in- Emily Dickinson Portrayed In “The Belle of Amherst” The Belle of Amherst, a one woman play -based on the life of the 19thcentury American poet Emily Dickinson, is being brought to Erie by the Friends of the Erie County Library. Johanna Ezell portrays Emily Dickinson. The play, written by William Luce, is currently running in Philadelphia. It is produced by Rock World Announces Second Sweepstakes Rockworld’s second major Rockworld’s Vice President sweepstakes is here! Students will Blake Herlick states, “Since the have another chance to win one contest is limited to college of 40 major prizes in Rockworld’s College-Only Sweepstakes 11. 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For more in formation, contact Terry Mc- Cammon at 734-4707, or Phyllis Milmore at 833-8517. students, entrants have an ex cellent chance to win a dream vacation for the price of a postage stamp.” The college music-video show will give away 16 Windjammer Caribbean Sailing Cruises, 15 OARS Witewater Rafting Adven tures and nine Bic Sailboards to 40 lucky students in the Nov. 16th drawing. Students can enter Rockworld’s College-Only Sweepstakes II by writing down their name, ad dress, telephone number, and col lege name, and sending it to: Rockworld, 1698 Central Ave., Albany, NY 12205. Or, students can drop their entries in entry boxes located in the Reed TV lounge. All entries must be receiv ed by Nov. 15. Rockworld is a one-hour week ly music video show provided ex clusively to college campuses across the United States free of charge. The show contains various types of music such as rock, country-western, rhythm and blues, jazz and punk. For more information call (518)456-3847. ALLEGHENY WOMEN’S CENTER an out patient medical clinic offering • Abortion —asleep or awake • Morning After Treatment • Birth Control • Related Services PHONE4I2/362-2920 A Medical Center East Building Penthouse Right (Bth floor) Women s 211 North Whitfield Street Center Pittsburgh, PA 15206 spired individuals, with a high espirit-de-corps which comes from being given difficult tasks and performing them well. They go the extra mile, the mile that others don’t have to, because they’re so inspired,” he said in reference to the Behrend Rangers. “In the Army, the Rangers con duct overt operations in small groups, which are designed to strike fast and hard. They do a lot of damage in a short time and get out as swiftly as they came. A good example of this is the Grenada invasion last year. It was the Army’s Rangers that went in. first,” said Slaughenhaupt. Karl is ranked as a cadet first lieutenant, and has been assigned to the 11th Special Forces. The Army’s Special Forces are the units bearing the famous green berets. They are similar to the Rangers in the difficulty of tasks they are given, and the amount of damage they do. The big dif ference is that they do it overtly. You might say the Rangers are blunt, and the Special Forces are a little more tactful. The goals for the Rangers this year are to train the MS ones and twos in military skills which in clude the: Ml 6 rifle, M6O machine gun, and M72A2 Light Anti-tank Weapon (LAW). “In addition,” continued Karl, “we’re trying to provide as close to an infantry environment as we can. We train weekly in the woods (on the south side of campus, above the ski slope) with M3A3 Springfield rifles, practicing such patrols as the raid, the ambush, and the reconnaisance.” Ranger meetings are held week ly at 5:30 p:m. on Tuesdays. To become a member of the club, you must be registered in ROTC. Ranger members acquire infor mation that is not taught in the classroom. “Master Sergeant Mitchell ad vises the club and Craig Paske is an unofficial advisor. Paske is an ex-sergeant in the Ist. Battallion, 75th Infantry Ranger Brigade,” Karl said. “This year, our Ranger unit should excel. It’s already running much smoother than it has in the past, and a good reason for this is the number of beret-qualified Rangers we have this year. Jon Heidt is our cadet non commisioned officer in charge (C COIC). And all our primary instructors are cadet NCOs at the MS 111 level, and they’ve all been to Army Basic Training which is nine weeks long. This is giving them good training in the instruc tion of Military Skills, which they have to lead their peers in at ad vanced camp next, summer.” In order to become beret qualified as a Behrend Ranger, you must pass a list of tests writ ten by the ranger unit advisor for University Park. These tests in clude: Orienteering exercises, rap pelling, first-aid procedures, operators maintenance on the A PRC-77 radio, the TA-312 field telephone, the Ml 6, M6O, M72A2 LAW, knowing tactical movements, river crossing opera tions, attaining a minimum of 225 points on the APRT, and facing a beret board, to review what the cadet has learned. There are 11 beret-qualified Rangers at Behrend, and the number is rapidly growing. There are presendy 16 cadets actively pur suing beret requirements, and another dozen or so who have shown intermittent interest. “The cadet NCOs who are the chief instructors for the Ranger unit are important to the success of the Ranger program here at Behrend,” said cadet NCOIC Heidt. A highlight of the Ranger year is the field training exercise (FTX) which is scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 9, 10,-11. This event includes mock battles with actual Ml 6 rifles that are loaded with blanks, and takes place in the Allegheny Forest. In the bat des, the Rangers combat a group of volunteer, non-Ranger ag gressors, in different types of missions. The Rangers use the training they have received on weeknights here at school to hopefully defeat the aggressors. The Rangers conduct raid, am bush and recon patrols, and are rated on their degree of success or failure by two MS IVs, one of which stays behind the aggressor force and observes, and the other stays behind the Ranger force and observes. After the skirmish, the two scorers contact each other on ANRC-77 radios, and decide who is the victor. If you are registered in the ROTC program and would like to be introduced to the Rangers through this enjoyable weekend activity, contact Major Hames in the ROTC office, and tell him you’d like to be an aggressor for the FTX. PAGE 1
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