This is literally the same issue as refusing to call PhD or EdD “Dr”. Tom Cotton = Jill Biden. There are two sorts of Rangers in Army, those who serve in Ranger regiment & Ranger School graduates. Cotton is latter & entitled to wear word Ranger on uniform. https://t.co/SyPNPl24ie

— Carlos Mucha (@mucha_carlos) January 23, 2021

Wrong. That’s not how it works at all.

Tom Cotton is Ranger-qualified. He was never an Army Ranger. Definitionally, an Army Ranger is someone who is in or who has served in the 75th Ranger Regiment in Fort Benning, Ga. That’s all.

In fact, you can be in the 75th Ranger Regiment and not go to Ranger school (though you are expected to) and still be called, you guessed it, a Ranger.

See here for more info.