Mule, you do have a way with words!
I attended my cousin's graduation from U.S. Army Ranger school a few weeks ago at Ft. Benning, GA. He's been deployed in Bosnia with the 10th Mountain Division and several deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Rangers prior to this final stage.
They put on quite a series of demonstrations. Complete with explosions, Blackhawk operations, rappelling, mock team operation with weapons, drops into the water, even uses of C4 such as making a shaped charge using a coffee can! I could feel/hear the strikes in the extended "mock" hand to hand combat demonstration! Definitely some tough hombres.