EP. 123: The Texas Rangers- Senior Captain Tony Leal (part 2)

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Ken Wise

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🗓️ 20 August 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Antonio “Tony” Leal served as a Texas Ranger from 1994-2011, including several years as the Senior Captain. In part 2 of an interesting and wide-ranging interview, you will learn about the Ranger service, life as a Ranger and many other interesting and informative things about the modern Ranger service. Senior Captain Leal’s ranching roots go back to an 18th century Spanish land grant on the Rio Grande and he would become the first Hispanic Senior Captain. Enjoy this glimpse into the modern Texas Rangers from Senior Captain Tony Leal.

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0:00.0	Howdy and welcome to Wise about Texas, the Texas History Podcast. This is your host Ken Wise and thank you very much for
0:14.7	tuning in today for a little bit of Texas History. Today we're going to continue with
0:19.6	part two of the interview of a retired Texas Ranger senior captain Tony Liao. The feedback on
0:25.6	part one has been fantastic and I think you're going to like part two just as much.
0:30.6	If you haven't listened to part one, go back to the last episode,
0:35.0	released a little over a week ago, and check out part one of the interview.
0:38.7	And please enjoy part two of the interview with retired Texas Ranger Tony Lial.
0:47.0	Okay, we touched on the history of the Rangers earlier. I want to talk a little bit more about that.
0:56.5	How do you, in your opinion, how does the 200-year history of the Texas Rangers influenced the organization today?
1:05.0	Well I think that the 200 years of history influenced it with a great deal of pride, admiration,
1:15.0	and you've heard the other people say this,
1:16.4	to leave it better than you have found it.
1:19.4	There's a very strong spirit of core within the Ranger Division.
1:28.0	They follow a lot of tradition that doesn't go through sometimes the rest of the department, you know,
1:40.4	and I don't mean that in holding on to old things that need to go.
1:44.6	I mean those in traditions where I've heard say a DPS narcotics agent. It's not a bad thing. It's how they do things, but I've heard them call their captain by their first name.
2:00.0	Okay, John, thanks. That would never happen in the Ranger Division because in the highest, now we call the majors now, okay, but a company commander is what a Ranger Major is, right?
2:14.1	Company Commander.
2:15.3	And if we talked about how they broke up into companies?
2:18.6	Again, we're going to talk about that for sure.
2:21.2	So, but a company commander is in charge of that
2:24.1	company. All right? It's a geographical area of the state. And so the highest rank in the day was captain for those company commanders.
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