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From: drogers@riacs.edu (David Rogers)
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Subject: LRRPs
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Date: 25 Mar 89 03:40:28 GMT
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From: drogers@riacs.edu (David Rogers)

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    From: ssc-vax!shuksan!major@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Mike Schmitt)

    BTW:  The U.S. does NOT have a LRRP capability.  We have Special Forces
    'A-Teams' who train indiginuous guerrilla forces - we have Ranger 
    Battalions who conduct 'direct action' combat patrols - but, we (U.S.) do
    not have units specifically organized, trained, equiped to conduct long
    range reconnsaisance - behind enemy lines.

I spent a weekend with a Michigan National Guard unit whose mission was 
long-range recon.  They were organized as a company of Airborne Rangers, but
the training was primary LRRP:  get dumped hundreds of miles behind 
enemy lines, collect info, radio it back, and avoid contact at all costs.
They were definately not 'direct action' combat patrols.  As I recall,
there was another company of LRRPs in the Texas National Guard.

I believe there was one active-duty company of LRRPs in the Army, but 
I may be mistaken.  However, it is incorrect to state that the US Army
does not train troops specifically for LRRP.