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USArmyRangersTrailIndexPage | HomePage | Rules | Character Creation | Character Types | US Army Rangers On 1 January of 1969, as part of the new US Army Combat Arms Regimental System (CARS), US Army Rangers were re-formed in Vietnam as the 75th Infantry Regiment (Ranger). Fifteen companies of Rangers, two of which (A-75 & B-75) were based in the USA, were raised from units that had been performing long range missions in Europe since the late 1950's and in Vietnam since 1966 as Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol and Long Range Patrol companies. These new Rangers were given a unit genealogy descending directly from Merrill's Marauders on 1 February of 1969. In Vietnam, the Rangers are organized as independent companies: C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O and P. There is no J Company because the Army considers the phonetic alphabet word for the letter J, "Juliet", to be too effeminate for designating units. Each company is attached to a major American army combat unit. Rangers in Vietnam conduct long range reconnaissance into denied areas. They collect intelligence, plan and direct air strikes, act as force-multipliers in conventional operations, assess bombing damage in enemy-controlled areas, execut hunter-killer missions at night and in daylight, set ambushes, and specially-trained and specially-equipped Ranger snipers kill individual enemy soldiers and officers. Additionally, Rangers attempt recovery of friendly prisoners of war, capture enemy soldiers for interrogation, tap North Vietnam Army and Viet Cong wire communications lines in their established base areas along the Ho Chi Minh trail, and mine enemy trails and motor vehicle transport routes.
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