National Ranger Memorial Foundation
Attention High School Seniors!!! The National Ranger Memorial Foundation is seeking qualified candidates to compete for scholarship awards to be applied towards the chosen applicants' educational needs. The application window is open now until June 1, 2016.
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Save the Date
33rd Annual David E. Grange, Jr. Best Ranger Competition - April 15-18, 2016
Ranger Class 5-16 Graduation - April 22, 2016
5th RTBn Open House - April 23, 2016 from 11-5 EST at Camp Merrill, GA
Gen. Darby Legacy Project Dedication - April 30, 2016 at Fort Smith, Arkansas
COL Darby 40-Mile Challenge Hike - April 30, 2016 at Peschiera del Garda, Italy
6th RTBn Open House - May 7, 2016 from 10-6 CDT at Camp Rudder, FL
Airborne & Ranger Training Brigade Change of Responsibility - May 26, 2016 at Victory Pond
Ranger Class 6-16 Graduation - June 24, 2016
Airborne & Ranger Training Brigade Change of Command - June 30, 2016 at Victory Pond
USARA 2016 Annual Ranger Muster - July 11-17, 2016 at DoubleTree Hotel in Columbus, GA
Ranger Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony - July 13, 2016 at Marshall Auditorium, Fort Benning, GA
Ranger Class 7-16 Graduation - July 15, 2016
Ranger Class 8-16 Graduation - August 26, 2016
Ranger Class 9-16 Graduation - September 23, 2016
Ranger Class 10-16 Graduation - October 21, 2016
Ranger Class 11-16 Graduation - November 11, 2016
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Brigadier General Eric Wesley assumes command of MCoE
Members of the Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE) community gathered in Marshall Auditorium on Friday, March 18, 2016 to say farewell to Maj. Gen. Scott Miller and to welcome the new commanding general of the MCoE, Brig. Gen. Eric Westley. In a small ceremony, Maj. Gen. Scott Miller passed the MCoE colors to Lt. Gen. Robert Brown, commanding general of U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth, hands the flag off to Brig. Gen. Eric Wesley.
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Lt. Gen. Robert Brown, presiding officer of the ceremony, passes the flag to Brig. Gen. Wesley in the ceremony at Marshall Auditorium on March 18, 2016. Photo taken by Markeith Horace, MCoE PAO photographer.
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Brig. Gen. Westley is a 1986 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. Wesley is also a graduate of Troy University where he earned a Master of Science degree in International Relations. His military schooling includes U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and National War College, where he earned a Master of Science degree in National Security and Strategic Studies.
Wesley's most recent assignment was at Department of Army Headquarters in Washington, D.C. as the Deputy Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation, G-8.
His awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with two oak leave clusters, Bronze Star with "V" device, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Combat Action Badge, Parachutist Badge, Ranger Tab, Presidential Service Identification Badge and Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge.
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Left to Right: Lt. Gen. Robert Brown, former commanding general for the Maneuver Center of Excellence, Brig. Gen. Eric Westley and Maj. Gen. Scott Miller. Photo taken by Markeith Horace, MCoE PAO photographer.
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Maj. Gen. Miller, recently promoted to Lt. Gen., is now the Commander of the Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg.
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Native American, Gilbert Horn Sr., WW II code talker and Merrill's Marauder dies at 92
It is with great sadness that I inform you on the death of another Merrill's Marauder. Gilbert Horn Sr., "
Shunk Ta Oba Kni", passed away on Sunday, March 27, 2016 of natural causes at the Northern Montana Care Center in Havre.
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Gilbert Horn, Sr., "Shunk Ta Oba Kni" - Returns with Prisoner Horse, was laid to rest on March 30, 2016.
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Horn was born on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in 1923. He joined the U.S. National Guard at age 15 as a way to escape the poverty of the reservation. He enlisted in the Army at 17 after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
Horn was initially trained as a sharpshooter and later received some training in communications and encryption and joined other Indians who used their native languages to send coded messages during World War II. The work of the code talkers remained classified until 1968.
Horn volunteered for service as a member of Merrill's Marauders, a special operations unit of 2,750 men whose mission was to cut Japanese communications and supply lines in the Burmese jungle.
The unit made an 800-mile trek over the Himalaya Mountains into the jungle with only the weapons and supplies they could carry on the 720 mules and horses they brought with them. The Marauders fought through monsoon season. Troops suffered from malaria, dysentery and typhus. Horn was wounded four times, including rounds to the chest, back and jaw.
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CSM Daryl Thies, 2nd Ranger Battalion, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA, is shown pinning the Bronze Star at a ceremony in November 2013 at the Fort Belknap Senior Citizen's Center in Montana. Horn also received a Ranger Tab and the Presidential Unit Citation.
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Following the war, Horn threw his energies into work on his family's ranch. Beginning in the 1950s, he began to assume a greater leadership role within the Assiniboine Tribe.
Horn served as councilman on the Fort Belknap Community Council for 19 years and as a tribal court judge for eight years. It was during his term on the bench that Fort Belknap's first tribal juvenile court regulations were written.
Horn served for six years on the National Indian Head Start Board and was instrumental in having the preschool education program established on the Fort Belknap Reservation. One of that institution's buildings is now named for him: The Gilbert Horn Sr. Early Head Start Center.
Horn is survived by his children, Willowa "Sis" Horn, Gilbert "Buddie" Horn, Jr. (Nedra), Donald "Duck" Horn (Fluff), Kermit Horn, Curtis Horn (Ramona), Walter Horn, (Lisa), Margaret Horn- Sampson (Dave), Charles Horn, John Bearcub (Ann), Wayne Herschel (Linda); Adopted children Stanley "P-Nut" Johnson (Joan) and Nick Hopkins, Sr. (Wendy), all of Fort Belknap; 37 Grandchildren, 71 great- grandchildren and 18 great-great- grandchildren.
Rest in peace "
Shunk Ta Oba Kni". We are so grateful for your service.
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