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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

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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!

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 socalled 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.