Talk:United States Army Rangers

message: The "American Civil War" section lists various Confederates that led units named "Rangers", including Mosby's Rangers, the Mountain Rangers, Terry's Texas Rangers and so on. For obvious reasons none of those were United States Army Rangers, and claims that the US Army recognized them as part of its history by incorporating Confederate symbology is unreferenced. Mosby is mentioned in the Ranger Handbook (and what it says about him was copy-pasted into our article), but obviously not as a United States Army Ranger, and with no indication that he had a significant influence on the United States Army Rangers. This page shouldn't be an indiscriminate collection of all Americans who might have been called "Ranger" at some point. I'll remove the entire Civil War section; if there are reliable sources that explain how the experience of the Civil War shaped tactics that were adopted by the United States Army Rangers or the like, we could summarize those aspects; otherwise the section is off-topic and/or unreferenced. Huon (talk) 11:33, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Rangers" in name only 

message: President Reagan dedicated a memorial plaque to the 5th (along with another to the 2nd) after his speech on site in 1984. 173.90.65.191 (talk) 03:47, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment on lack of memorial to 5th battalion 

message: "United States Army Rangers, according to the US Army's definition, are personnel, past or present, in any unit that has the official designation of "Ranger"."
This is not a true statement and should be updated.
The reference provided https://www.army.mil/ranger/index.html provides description to the current Ranger School and the current Ranger Unit 75th Ranger Regiment. 
This first paragraph should be updated to align with the only definition of who is a US Army Ranger - https://ranger.org/Who-Is-A-Ranger  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jameseisenhauer (talk • contribs) 21:48, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The US Army does not provide a definition of who are US Army Rangers 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ranger tab#Requested move 10 February 2024 that may be of interest to editors of this page. Schierbecker (talk) 17:17, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:Ranger tab#Requested move 10 February 2024]] 

message: Should we just remove the paragraph entirely that discusses membership criteria for the USARA? This article is about the U.S. Army Rangers, not about the USARA, not about the LRSA, not about any other external membership association. Having a paragraph that gets into a heated discussion about why USARA accepts some lineage and not others, is not directly relevant to anything related to the Rangers themselves -- it's relevant to membership criteria in USARA, which is not the subject of this article. It seems that having a massive paragraph on this, when the NG component Ranger companies constitute a very small part of the overall ranger history, is undue weight. Additionally, while the paragraph is extensively cited, it's largely synthesis as the central claim that it's trying to make is that USARA uses the "wrong criteria" -- sources are provided for *which* criteria that USARA uses, but none directly state *why* they use it, or discuss the differences between the two methods, nor which one is "correct", or anything else beyond the fact that USARA uses method A, and method B also exists. The effect is that the entire paragraph, while sourced, is a giant coatrack to rest synthesis on. IMO it should just be nuked entirely. Seeking additional consensus here. ⇒SWATJester Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 17:25, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing membership criteria for USARA?