Jerry Barnhart

But also I think that your presence, because that was a time when, when Ranger Battalion was in the regiment, but particularly I think second battalion.

And I think part of it had to do with you being there and your influence is like you, you mentioned that, Like, you got Jerry Barnhart there, you know, which was, you know, a resource that Rangers hadn't had access to up until that point in time.

You know, the Gracies, like, bringing civilian experts for these things.

That, when you were there, was also when we were allowed to go to the tactical tailor and have woolly peep bags sewn into our rucksacks.

And since I was the S3, it was only like 20, 20 grand to get Barnhart or something.

And we were spending, you know, a hundred grand to rent the mouth site, you know, it, uh, some obscure post.

Uh, and so, you know, I just use that money to, to spend on Jerry Barnhart and new equipment and stuff like that.

And so, you know, I think it more than anything, it speaks of, you know, the value of, uh, of you know going back and forth between units uh you know uh especially on the nco level uh greg birch did that at the end of his career he was the battalion of regimental i believe he was regimental sergeant major too uh yeah he was in small in uh afghanistan so he he did that of his own accord you know he he had already accomplished everything you could accomplish at the unit, and he did it because he started, you know, where I started, A Company 275, and he wanted to go back.

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Jerry Barnhart, they got the, the, the targets into phone booths.

We gotta run over there and shoot every single one of them.

Yep, yep.

... shot freaking Limited.

Right.

B- Well, and it was, the Jerry Barnhart year-

Yeah

They're gonna take maximum advantage of it.

I certainly did back in the day when I was in Delta, and I trained with Rob Latham and Jerry Barnhart, you know, John Shaw, these guys.

I applied myself, no matter whether I was writing a check or not, I applied myself 100%.

Some guys, though, kind of, not everybody, but some of them will kind of mail it in a little bit because, you know, they're getting paid to be there.

They're not having the right to check to be in the class.

So I normally enjoy training civilians more than law enforcement or military as a general rule.

When you talk about Jerry Barnhart, if I remember correctly, he was one of the first guys to really pioneer that pistol optics side of things and did it with that TASCO IDPA championship.

Predecessor to the EOTech.