Video: Behind the scenes with Army Ranger training

By Neil McCabe | 1:48 AM | December 15, 2014

The legacy of the Army Rangers go back to colonial American frontiersmen banded together to defend their farms, families and communities through a higher level of military tactics and training. Today, Rangers complete a rigorous 61-day course with the final segment at Camp Ruddy, Florida.

The Rangers are the world’s elite strike-force-light-infantry unit and in this video, you will meet both instructors and Ranger candidates talk about the training and the legacy of this premiere force.

Watch the video here:

Neil W. McCabe is the editor of HE's "Guns & Patriots" e-letter and was a senior reporter at the Human Events newspaper. McCabe deployed with the Army Reserve to Iraq for 15 months as a combat historian. For many years, he was a reporter and photographer for "The Pilot," Boston's Catholic paper. He was also the editor of the free community papers "The Somerville (Mass.) News and "The Alewife (North Cambridge, Mass.)." Email him: [email protected] Follow him on Twitter: @neilwmccabe.