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A Site Dedicated To Teaching Survival Tips "Outside the Box."
Website Owner: US Army "Ranger Rick" F. Tscherne, Ret.

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About US Army "Ranger Rick" Ret. 1972-93

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Howdy Folks! Welcome to my newly revised & updated Ranger Digest.com website! New tips, new tricks and some brand new never seen before survival products too! Trust me, I guarantee you won't find a more enjoyable and entertaining survival site than mine. Wanna bet?

And if you’re a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, school teacher, scout master or some child’s mentor. I encourage you to sit down and review this website together with them and learn what it takes to survive and thrive in the outdoors.

So pull up a chair, take off your shoes, grab yourself a cup of coffee or a beer and call your son, daughter, niece, nephew, grandson, granddaughter, students or someone elses child and sit back together and enjoy my site. And when you're done reviewing all my tips & tricks I hope you will take a few minutes and send me an email to let me know what you think of my site. And most importantly, please don't forget to visit MY STORE & STUFF page as the proceeds from the sales help maintain this site.

But before reading on please take a few minutes to review my Website Disclaimer below.

Readers Beware: All the information listed here on my website is strictly for informational & educational purposes only. Therefore if you chose to read on and try out any of my survival tips and or to purchase any of my survival products you do so at your own risk.

Age Restriction: You must be at least 18 years old to order my survival products, including my Ranger Digest handbooks too. Therefore anyone who places an online or mail-in order are claiming they are at least 18 years of age and therefore I cannot be held liable nor responsible for any fraudulent underage orders.

If you do not agree to these terms & conditions then please DO NOT proceed beyond this line of stars below nor click on my survival tips to the left of this screen. But instead log off and find yourself another survival site.

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Welcome again to my website! And so now that you have decided to stick around, allow me to tell you just a little bit about myself.

As a former US Army Ranger, Drill Instructor and Advisor/Trainer to the Bosnia & Herzegovina Army (1996-97) under the US State Department "Train & Equip Program." I have always enjoyed sharing with soldiers my personal experiences, tips, tricks and ideas in how to survive & thrive in the outdoors. Now although I've been retired from the United States Army since January 1993, I am still doing what I like best - teaching & training soldiers. But not in a class room but through a series of books - THE RANGER DIGESTS. 

Like my website here, my books are about how to survive and thrive in the outdoors "military style." From how to take a crap in the woods, improvise, modify, and improve military and commercial outdoor gear to lots of useful tips, tricks & ideas that you won't find in other books, military or civilian.

Now before I decided to self-publish these handbooks I use to forward all my tips, tricks and ideas to the Department of the Army. But the only thing I ever received back were letters saying, "...sorry, not feasible for military outdoor field conditions."

Well since the Army wasn’t interested in my ideas I decided to write a book about my tips & tricks and try to market them to the troops instead. After all, when it comes to "common sense" and "field craft ingenuity" the troops know more about this stuff than some "chair-borne" colonel or general sitting behind his nice cozy desk at the Pentagon.

And guess what? Yep, my instincts were right on target. Not only did the troops love my first Ranger Digest but they helped me write my Ranger Digests II thru IX. No doubt it was a blessing in disguise that these chair-borne colonels and generals did reject my tips & tricks or there wouldn't be a Ranger Digest series today. The Army's loss - my gain, or should I say OUR gain! All you Ranger Digest readers and contributors.

And now not a day goes by that I don't receive an email or a letter from someone, a soldier, camper, hiker, hunter or some other outdoor enthusiast telling me how much they enjoyed reading my Ranger Digests. And you know what, I never get tired of receiving these compliments, NEVER!

Now for those of you who know of tip or trick or two that you would like to share with me for future Ranger Digest publications. I have one rule and one rule only, so please listen up very carefully…. DO NOT SEND me any of your tips UNLESS you have read all nine copies of my Ranger Digest (I-IX) books.

Why? Because whenever someone in the past has sent me their tip or trick and they have NOT read ALL nine copies of my Ranger Digests. Most of the time their tip was already submitted by someone else and it has already been published in one of my Ranger Digest books. And so if you can't follow my one rule - then don't expect me to reply back. But if you do violate my rule and I do accept your tip or trick and it is something new and unusual, then trust me you will hear from me.

And now not only do I write and self publish my own military-outdoor survival books but I sell my own survival kits & products too. That's right, what started as a hobby for me soon become a fast growing online mail order business for me once people found out about my website. And I love it, I love putting together these survival kits and selling them here on my site because I know someday they could save someone's life. To learn more about my survival kits and other products, just click on my SOS Survival Kits and My Store & Stuff page.

Well I guess you're getting a bit restless and anxious to find out what kind of unusual survival tips & tricks I have here on my site, aren't ya? Sure you are, and so before you check'em out I have just one little itty-bitty favor to ask of you, just one. And that is if you like what you see here on my website I hope you will spread the word and let others know about it. Will you do that for me? Please?

And one last thing… just so you know, I don't live in the US of A but here in Italy. I live in a small town famous for it's wine called Bardolino located on the largest lake in Northern Italy called Lake Garda. And so if you are ever here in my neck of the woods stop by for a glass of wine. And if you're wondering why I chose to retire and live here in Italy and not back in the US. Well it's because I fell in love with the Italian wine, pizza, pasta and the Italian women here, but not necessarily in that order. To learn more about my town of Bardolino and Lake Garda too, just google it and you’ll see why I love it here so much. And for those of you who are jealous of where I live and my accomplishments too... eat your hearts out!

Well thanks for stopping by, I hope you like what you find here and you’ll come back again later when I have posted some new stuff. And after you have checked out all my tips & tricks here on my site and you would like to learn what the rest of my tips & tricks are about, I’m sorry but you'll have to order my Ranger Digest series to find out.

And now without further delay, you may now click on my "Top 30 Tips" to the left of this screen. Enjoy!

Your Ranger Buddy,

"Army Ranger Rick" F. Tscherne

U.S. Army, Retired (1972-93)
Author, The Ranger Digest Series I-IX
Developer, SOS Survival Kits
Owner, www.therangerdigest.com