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From: howard@cos.com (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: ARMY UNIT DESIGNATIONS.......
Summary: We don't need steenking logic!
Keywords: reply to article 1859....
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Date: 16 Oct 89 01:37:51 GMT
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From: howard@cos.com (Howard C. Berkowitz)

In article <10147@cbnews.ATT.COM>, mes@tellab5.tellab5.CHI.IL.US (Martin Swinney) writes:
> 
> 
> From: mes@tellab5.tellab5.CHI.IL.US (Martin Swinney)
> To the individual who stated in (article 1859) that Airborne unit's received 
> desg.of numbers at and above 500. Please explain the following errors.

     Again, this was from memory.  Perhaps the 500 series is more
     specifically parachute infantry (as in the 82nd Airborne Div.,
     and the 101st when Airborne).  Yes, I do know about exceptions
     such as the 187th Regimental Combat Team (Airborne).
> 
> 	 A) 1st and 2nd of the 75th Ranger Battalion - Airborne (still active)

      I won't try to figure out Ranger unit logic, since the original
      WWII Ranger bns were, as I remember, 1 through 6.
     
> 
> 	 B) All WW2 Glider/Airborne Batt. 300 ser.

      This may be true for glider units, but, as far as I can remember,
      the parachute infantry regiments at Normandy, Arnhem, etc.,
      were 500 series.
> 
> 	 C) 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, Batt. of the 325th (still active)

      Haven't the slightest idea.                   
> 	 
> 	 D) 1st, 5th, 7th, 12th, Group Special Forces (still active)

      I was discussing regiments, not non-regimental units.  SF 
      historically traced its origin to the 1st Special Service 
      Force, which, naturally, had a Ranger rather than a SF
      mission (as opposed to OSS Jedburghs).  Again by memory,
      the Army continued the history of the 1st SSF by activating
      the 7th SFG first, then the 77th.  The 1st SFG came later,
      but I can check this with Aaron Banks' book at home.
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