“Ranger school?  It’s tough, I’ll tell you that. One day I was standing there waiting to do something and some guy was backing up he had a line he was (I forgot).  And all the sudden I heard this yell, OWWWWWWW OOOOOOOH, splat! He’d walked backwards right off a cliff.”

“Oh my God.”

“Yeah, he fell 55-65 feet, landed on a rock and was lying there with his leg mangled, it was actually up under his head it was so messed up.”

“Oh my God.” (swearing after the break)

“Yeah, and the instructor went over the edge, looked down  and yelled at him: Get up you motherfucker! Get up you pussy son-of-a-bitch!”

I opened my eyes wide.  “What did you think of that?”

“I thought I was in hell of course. This is hell.”

“What happened?”

“Well we had to go get him and it turned out to be a big problem. He was in a place that was really hard to get to; we wound up lowering this basket through the trees to get him.”

“I see. So what happened to him?”

“I don’t know but guess what he was saying as they lifted him up in the basket?”

“What?”

“I don’t quit! I do not quit. I am not quitting, I  do. Not. Quit. They try to make you quit, see? And that bastard wanted everyone to know this was not him quitting, he was not going to quit.”

Mars in Capricorn, maybe??