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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: LRRPs
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Date: 31 Mar 89 01:52:47 GMT
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From: rutgers!xenna.encore.com!maxzilla!waltm (Walt Matthieson)

In article <5128@cbnews.ATT.COM> drogers@riacs.edu (David Rogers) writes:
>    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 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.



As far as I know there never was a company of LRRPs in the Army however there
were several schools that had that training. I attended the 6 week LRRP course
at Camp Macall on the Ft. Bragg reservation in the early 70s, this course was
much harder for me than Ranger school although Ranger School was longer. 
The whole idea was to have teams assigned to various unit commands so that the
commander could use the team as he saw fit. In Nam there were many LRRP teams
operating under the various commands but I don't think there was a company sized
team. Maybe you are thinking of Co. C 1st of the 75th Rangers which operated

Walt Mattison Airborne Ranger SF Halo ( and retired  8 ) )

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