The Mediocre Infantryman's Guide to Ranger School

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What do you do when you show up to Ranger School clueless alone and completely unprepared for the pain and suffering ahead? How are you going to survive one of the world's toughest military courses earn the coveted Ranger Tab and come home in one piece?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Corporal Andrew Goldsmith isn't a super soldier-he's your average infantryman and by his own admission a pretty mediocre one at that. Yet through a twist of fate and dumb luck he finds himself thrown into an ordeal designed to break even the most elite warriors. Severely sleep-deprived perpetually starving limping through injuries and tormented by both the elements and the infamous Ranger Instructors Goldsmith quickly realizes that surviving Ranger School will be the greatest battle of his life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The journey isn't always glamorous. There are no heroic montages few dramatic triumphs- just the toilsome life of a ranger and a lot of questionable decisions made under duress. With his comrades dropping like flies and his mental state teetering on the edge Goldsmith has to dig deep to find a way through the madness summoning the strength to endure a course so brutal that many describe it as worse than combat itself.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In 'A Mediocre Infantryman's Guide to Ranger School' Goldsmith shares his brutally honest darkly funny and surprisingly relatable account of his journey through one of the most notorious rites of passage in the U.S. Army. Part survival guide part cautionary tale this book isn't just for aspiring Rangers-it's for anyone who's ever faced down a seemingly insurmountable challenge and wondered Can I really do this?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Through humor humility and a healthy dose of self-deprecation Goldsmith shows readers that you don't need to be extraordinary to achieve extraordinary things. Sometimes you just need to embrace the suck laugh through the pain and keep putting one boot in front of the other.</span></p><p></p>