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75th Ranger Regiment
Rangers
Airborne Rangers
Army Rangers
Task Force Ranger
U.S. Army Rangers
Branch
rapidly deployable light infantry force.
Each battalion can deploy anywhere in the world with 18 hours notice.
Conducting conventional or special light-infantry operations, conducting direct action operations, conducting raids,
infiltrating and exfiltrating by sea, air or land,recovery of personnel and special equipment.
Rangers Lead The Way! (RLTW)
Sua Sponte ("Of their own accord")
Equipment
84mm Ranger Anti tank Weapons System (RAWS), 60mm Mortars M240B machine guns, 81mm Mortars Mark 19 RP MM grenade launcher, 120mm Mortars stinger.
Insertion date
The 75th Ranger Regiment —also known as the United States Army Rangers— is a Special Operations Force of the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC); with headquarters in Fort Benning, Georgia. The Regiment is a flexible, highly trained and rapidly deployable light infantry force with specialized skills that enables it to be employed against a variety of conventional and special operations targets.
The force specializes in Airbornemilitary training exercise. Airborne Military parachuting form of insertion. Purpose Delivering personnel, equipment, or supplies. Origins Attributed to Italian troops on November 1927. Reason of creation Need to deliver troops behind German enemy lines i, light-infantry and direct action operations, conducting raids, infiltration and exfiltration by air, land or sea, airfield seizure, recovery of personnel and special equipment, and support of general purpose forces (GPF) among others. Each Ranger Battalion can deploy anywhere in the world with 18 hours notice.
The term ‘Ranger’ first appeared in 1670 in Church's Rangers, though the WWII reference was taken from Roger's Rangers of 1756, whose Standing Orders are still quoted today. In May 1942 during World War II, the 1st Ranger Battalion was sanctioned and recruited from forces in Northern Ireland and trained in Scotland by the British Commandos. Together with the ensuing 3rd , and 4th Ranger Battalion s they served in North Africa and Italy under William O. Darby until the Battle of Cisterna ( January 29, 1944) when all but a handful of the 1st and 3rd were wiped out or captured.
Prior to the 5th Ranger Battalion landing on Dog White Sector, Omaha Beach in WWII, three Companies of the 2nd Ranger Batt. scaled the 150 foot cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, a few miles to the west, to destroy a battery of five 155mm guns. Under constant fire during the climb, they found only a small company of Germans on the cliffs and the artillery withdrawn some 500 metres. The guns were later found and destroyed and the Rangers cut and held the main road for two days before being relieved.