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The 2nd Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment traces its lineage to two units; Company H, 475th Infantry Regiment (previously known as the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), or "Merrill's Marauders") and Company A, 2nd Ranger Battalion. The units originally had separate lineages, but were then consolidated in 1986.
Company O, 75th Infantry (Ranger) Company O (Arctic Ranger), 75th Infantry (Ranger) 1 February 1969 4 August 1970: 20 November 1969 29 September 1972: 78th Infantry Detachment (LRP) 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division (Vietnam) US Army Alaska: Company P, 75th Infantry (Ranger) 1 February 1969: 31 August 1971: 79th Infantry Detachment (LRP)
U.S. Army Rangers, assigned to 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, prepare for extraction during Task Force Training at Fort Hunter Liggett, California, 30 January 2014. Be a U.S. citizen; Be on active duty and volunteer for assignment; Have a General Technical Score of 105 or higher; No physical limitations (PULHES of 111221 or better)
While the Ranger Battalions were sent home, an RRD team was forward deployed to provide reconnaissance capabilities for Operation Uphold Democracy. On 24 November 2000 the 75th Ranger Regiment deployed Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment Team 2 and a command and control element to Kosovo in support of Task Force Falcon. [4]
The Ash Street shootout was a gunfight on September 23, 1989, in the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma, Washington, United States, between off-duty United States Army Rangers and people associated with one Ranger's across-the-street neighbors, who were suspected of drug dealing and gang activity.
On 1 April 2003, DEVGRU along with Para Rescue Jumpers and Combat Controllers from the 24th Special Tactics Squadron and Rangers from 1st and 2nd Battalions, 75th Ranger Regiment and other forces took part in the rescue of PFC Jessica Lynch; also that day C Squadron, Delta Force and 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment captured the Haditha Dam ...
The United States Army Rangers are elite U.S. Army personnel who have served in any unit which has held the official designation of "Ranger". [1] [2] The term is commonly used to include graduates of the Ranger School, even if they have never served in a "Ranger" unit; the vast majority of Ranger school graduates never serve in Ranger units and are considered "Ranger qualified".
401st Army Band; 402nd Army Band; 403rd Army Band; 404th Army Band; WAAC bands were later redesignated and officially activated in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in January 1944. For a long time, the only Army Band made up of women, was the 14th Army WAC Band, which reported to the Women's Army Corps Training Center at Camp Lee in August 1948. [14]