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United States Army soldiers calling cadence, during Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson (South Carolina) in 2008. In the United States armed services, a military cadence or cadence call is a traditional call-and-response work song sung by military personnel while running or marching.
John Cafiero had originally written "I Wanna Be a NY Ranger" with the intention for it to be recorded by the Ramones as an anthem for the New York Rangers ice hockey team. The song is a punk rock interpolation of the military cadence "Airborne Ranger", inspired by the simplicity of older Ramones songs such as "Beat on the Brat". [2]
Lewis Winstock, Songs & Music of the Redcoats, 1642–1902, (1970) Walter Wood, The Romance of Regimental Marches, (1932) 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers connection to the early history of Garryowen: Royal Irish Lancers; 1st Squadron 7th Cavalry (history, song, etc.): US Army site Archived 16 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
The song was sung on college campuses and across the United States throughout the 20th century. [7] The chorus has been included as part of many other drinking songs, such as "There Are No Airborne Rangers", [8] "Glorious" (1950s college song), [9] "The Souse Family", [10] and "The California Drinking Song". [11]
Originally, the song was titled "Army Air Corps."Robert MacArthur Crawford wrote the initial first verse and the basic melody line in May 1939. [1] During World War II, the service was renamed "Army Air Forces" because of the change in the main U.S. Army's air arm naming in mid-1941, and the song title changed to agree.
On October 16, 2012, Cook's first single from Broken Bow Records, "Airborne Ranger Infantry", was released. [3] She was inspired to write the songs after reading poems written by her father, Larry Cook, about his experiences in the Army during the Vietnam War. "We took lines directly from the poems and put them into the song," Kristy said.
The song is associated with all current American airborne units, including the 82nd Airborne Division, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, the 101st Airborne Division and 11th Airborne Division, and the 120th CTS (United States) as well as British airborne units. It is known as "Mancha Roja" (Spanish for "Red Stain") in airborne units from multiple ...
The United States Army Rangers are elite U.S. Army personnel who have served in any unit which has held the official designation of "Ranger". [1] [2] The term is commonly used to include graduates of the Ranger School, even if they have never served in a "Ranger" unit; the vast majority of Ranger school graduates never serve in Ranger units and are considered "Ranger qualified".