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1. HOME WELCOME ABOUT US MEMORIALS MEDIA ARCHIVES    News  WELCOME HOME This website has been created to remember, honor and recognize the efforts of the men of the Vietnam Era 4th Infantry Division Special Ops, including but not limited to LRRP, LRP, Rangers, Recon. It is our sincere determination to recognize every aspect of the Special Ops formed through E/58, Divisional LRRPs, Brigade LRRPs, and K Company 75th Infantry Rangers Many people have contributed time, money, energy and mementos in order to preserve, perpetuate and remember our mission. We have tried to keep the history of our service and contributions alive. Check back often as new items are continually being added. Please contact us through the email contact for any reason. We hope you will also be a contributor and provide some of your mementos to share. We sincerely hope this site provides you with the renewed memory, closure, the ability to locate a buddy or for whatever reason you have decided to view this site. Some of us thought of ourselves as ‘rag tag’ back then and maybe we were. Over the years it has become quite clear that we were actually the elite and some of the best the army had. We have become the lineage of the present day 75th Ranger Regiment and deserve to be proud, honored and remembered for the brave tour of duty we performed. Welcome Home. Thank you for your service. God Bless America!

2. HISTORY THIS HISTORY DEALS WITH THE ACTIVITIES, PERSONNEL OUR HERITAGE This history deals with the activities, personnel, and accomplishments of Company K (Ranger), 75th Infantry (Airborne), during the period 1 February 1969 through 10 December 1970, and briefly highlights the history of the units that preceded, and led to the establishment of Company K (Ranger), 75th Infantry (Airborne). LEARN MORE MODERN IDEAS ABOUT PATROLS World War II brought the concept of patrols working and living in the backyard of the enemy into the modern era. “Twenty men is a good number to work with, but 15 is better than 20, and at night 10 is better than 15,” declared British Brigadier Orde C. Wingate, organizer of the so-called Gideon Force, a fast-moving commando unit that adopted hit-and-run tactics during the North African campaigns early in World War II. Wingate’s mercurial personality (later histories would call him — at best — mentally unstable. See Max Hastings Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945.— GPJ 11/5/19).”kept him at odds with the military establishment of his time, but the successes of the Gideon Force against the Italians in Sudan and Ethiopia proved to many that the concept of a lightweight force worked. Many military strategists of the time, firmly rooted in traditional warfare tactics, disregarded Wingate’s methods, but the British commando leader pursued the concept nevertheless. After he outlined his ideas on what he termed “long-range penetration” in a formal paper to the British high command, he was given another opportunity to put the concept into action in Burma in 1942. Wingate believed that small groups of troops (small connoted brigade-size at that time), working in the rear of the enemy, supplied by air and in communication with main force commanders, could tie up enough enemy manpower to aid regular military operations within the theater. Wingate’s Raiders —more commonly known as Chindits —put his theory into practice during their operations against the Japanese in northern Burma in 1943. During this period the acronym LRP —long-range penetration —showed up in military parlance for the first time. EVOLUTION OF THE LRRPS HUNTERS AND TRACKERS The LRRPs were a link to America’s military past, but they would also become a bridge to its future. “Let the enemy come till he’s almost close enough to touch. Then let him have it and jump out and finish him off with your hatchet.” That was one of the standing orders for Rogers’ Rangers in 1759 for

3. combat operations during the French and Indian War in the forests of New England. More than two centuries later, that same approach would serve their successors well during combat operations in the jungles of Vietnam. EVOLUTION OF THE LRRPS By Gary P. Joyce KNOW MORE IN THE RUCKSACK NOVEMBER - NEVER FORGOTTEN AFTER ACTION REPORTS Memorials – Post War IVY LEAF NEWSPAPERS KIA SPECIAL MEMORIALS MEMORIALS THE RANGER CREED RANGERS LEAD THE WAY!!! Recognizing that I volunteered as a Ranger, fully knowing the hazards of my chosen profession, I will always endeavor to uphold the prestige, honor, and high esprit de corps of my Ranger Regiment. Acknowledging the fact that a Ranger is a more elite soldier who arrives at the cutting edge of battle by land, sea, or air, I accept the fact that as a Ranger my country expects me to move further, faster and fight harder than any other soldier. FIND OUT MORE HERE

4. AMERICA’S RANGER HERITAGE The long-range reconnaissance patrols (LRRPs) of the Vietnam War operated in a silent netherworld of dark green shadows where error could mean death and where the extraordinary was commonplace. Traveling in small groups —often only three or four men —far from friendly forces, they strove to look, smell, move and act as much as possible like the enemy they sought in the depths of the jungle. LRRPs were hunters and trackers, and their elusive prey was the NVA and VC. RANGER LEGACY PATROLLING MAGAZINE IMPORTANT LINKS NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 2022 REUNION ITINERARY **REUNION UPDATE*** ALL SYSTEMS GO! READY FOR LAUNCH….. DECEASED LRRP/RANGER BROTHERS (NON-COMBAT) WITH NO TAPS PAGES Read more The K Company 2022 reunion in Colorado Springs, CO is rapidly approaching!  The host hotel is the Holiday Inn at the Colorado Springs Airport.  Dates are Wednesday September 7th thru Saturday September 10th, check out on the 11th.  The rate is $139/night for a king or double queen with the hotel honoring that rate for 3 days before to 3… Our records indicate that there are 44 LRRP/Rangers from our unit who died after their service, but we do not currently have enough information to create a “Taps” page for them.  We would like to honor and remember all of our brothers.  If you have any information like an Obituary, picture or something that you could add that might be… Read more Read more CONTACT US REQUEST INFORMATION Served with the unit, or have a question? Use this on-line form and we’ll get right back to you.

5. First Name Last Name Phone Your e-mail Your message I'm not a robot reCAPTCHA Privacy - Terms SUBMIT ARCHIVES IMPORTANT LINKS Sitreps – 1967 – 1st Bde – Francis Marion 4th Infantry Division Operation Reports, Feb68-Nov68 Lessons Learned After Action Reports Britt Taylor Collins Military Art 75th Ranger Regiment Association 4th Div LRRPs & Rangers (old website) Ranger Memorial Long Range Reconnaissance Association Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund NARA-College Park, Md Texas Tech Virtual Vietnam Archive Vietnam War – Google maps of Firebases 75th Ranger Regiment Assn (75thrra.org) When we created the k75ranger.com & 4thdivlrrp.com websites in 2014, it was by “inheriting” the 2nd Brigade LRRP website that Mike Lapolla, Ron Coon and others originally put together.  © Copyright 2022, All Rights Reserved, Developed And Managed By ESPL