We have much to be thankful for and want to single out those deployed from home this coming holiday.  I pray you are all home safe and soon.  I’d like to wish all of our readers a very special holiday and a Merry Christmas (no offense meant to those that don’t celebrate Christmas). 

Shivering at attention on a cold December morning in 1981 waiting for morning formation my squad leader asked me if I was cold.  Naively I answered “yes” upon which he proceeded to haze me to keep me warm and required me and my fellow cadet privates to memorize the following carol before the next formation.  Here it as slightly tweaked to fit our current foe.  Enjoy & Merry Christmas!

A Ranger Christmas Carol

Claymore ring are you singing
In the kill zone blood is glistening
A beautiful sight, Security’s tight
Working in a terrorist infested land

Far away is the RP
By tonight that’s where we must be
To count unafraid, the kills that we’ve made
Working in a terrorist infested land

In the meadow we will build a kill zone
And pretend that we are all John Wayne
We’ll kill everything that in the kill zone
Cause blood and guts and killing is our game

Later on, we’ll conspire
As we camp without a fire
Our tripwires are tight, A beautiful night
Working in a terrorist infested land