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Patrolling Fall 2008 75 Th Ranger Regiment Association, Inc
PATROLLING FALL 2008 75 TH RANGER REGIMENT ASSOCIATION, INC. VOLUME 23 ISSUE II Vietnamese Rangers (37 th Biet Dong Quan), and their US advisors inspect a captured NVA recoilless rifle during the battle at Khe Sanh, Tet, 1968. Trench lines were necessary due to sniper fire and constant incoming enemy rounds. Senior Advisor CPT Walter Gunn is in the forefront, Officers’ Messages ................................1-10 kneeling; SFC Willard Langdon, 4 th from right, with BDQ General ..................................11-24 & 72-80 patch. Unit Reports ........................................25-71 CHINA - BURMA - INDIA VIETNAM IRAN GRENADA PANAMA IRAQ SOMALIA AFGHANISTAN PATROLLING – FALL 2008 PATROLLING – FALL 2008 WHO WE ARE: The 75th Ranger Regiment Association, Inc., is a We have funded trips for families to visit their wounded sons and registered 501 (c) corporation, registered in the State of Georgia. We were husbands while they were in the hospital. We have purchased a learning founded in 1986 by a group of veterans of F/58, (LRP) and L/75 (Ranger). program soft ware for the son of one young Ranger who had a brain The first meeting was held on June 7, 1986, at Ft. Campbell, KY. tumor removed. The Army took care of the surgery, but no means existed OUR MISSION: to purchase the learning program. We fund the purchase of several awards 1. To identify and offer membership to all eligible 75th Infantry Rangers, for graduates of RIP and Ranger School. We have contributed to each of and members of the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol the three Battalion’s Memorial Funds and Ranger Balls, Companies, Long Range Patrol Companies, Ranger and to the Airborne Memorial at Ft. -
Wear of Ribbons and Medals
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH COMMISSIONED CORPS INSTRUCTION AND HUMAN SERVICES CC26.3.3 EFFECTIVE DATE: 28 August 2008 By Order of the Acting Assistant Secretary for Health: ADM Joxel Garcia, USPHS SUBJECT: Wear of Ribbons and Medals 1. PURPOSE: The purpose of this Instruction is to prescribe the manner in which ribbons and medals are worn by officers on the uniform of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service (Corps). This Instruction also prescribes the order of precedence for wearing Corps, other uniformed service and non-uniformed service awards on the Corps uniform. 2. APPLICABILITY: This issuance applies to all Regular Corps and Reserve Corps officers on extended active duty and to officers called to active duty for short tours of duty or limited tours of duty. 3. AUTHORITY: 3-1. 42 USC 202 3-2. 42 USC 216 3-3. Executive Order 11140, dated 30 January 1964 4. PROPONENT: The proponent of this Instruction is the Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH). The responsibility for assuring the day-to-day management of the Corps is the Surgeon General. 5. SUMMARY OF REVISIONS AND UPDATES: This is the first issuance of this Instruction within the electronic Commissioned Corps Issuance System (eCCIS) and amends Commissioned Corps Personnel Manual (CCPM) CC27.9.1, “Authorization to Wear Non-PHS Awards.” It replaces CC26.3.3, “Wearing Ribbons and Medals,” dated 15 July 1993, and amends Manual Circular 372, “Revisions of Uniform Policies,” dated 21 April 2003, and creates a stand alone Instruction within the eCCIS. UPDATE: 16 September 2008. This version includes the clarifications and amendments of PPM 08-021, “Technical Revision of CC26.3.3,” dated 15 September 2008. -
2/503D Photo of the Month ~
February 2012, Issue 37 Contact: [email protected] See all issues to date at either of these web sites: http://firebase319.org/2bat/news.html or http://corregidor.org/VN2-503/newsletter/issue_index.htm __________________________________________________________________________________________ ~ 2/503d Photo of the Month ~ Near Song Be, RVN, 2/503 medics tend to wounded Charlie Company trooper. (Photo by SP4 Alan Price, Bde PIO) 2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / February 2012 – Issue 37 Page 1 of 66 dangerously climbing; watertight bulkheads to enable Chaplain’s ships to work more safely and effectively – and the list goes on. He refused to profit from his many inventions. His personal way to glorify his Heavenly Father was to Corner help people be more comfortable and fulfilled. This quiet, inspirational Founding Father found much of his personal happiness in his dear wife, Deborah Read, and their 44 blessed years together, even though he was deployed for 11 of their 44 years on special Ambassador Our Leapin’ Deacon with duty to England and France. Mrs. Deacon, his bride Ann Ben Franklin was the only Founding Father who assisted Dear and Honored Sky Soldiers, Families and Friends: in preparing and signing all four of the vital documents, which led to the beginning of the United States: Grace and Peace! Declaration of Independence in 1776; the Treaty of Alliance with France 1778; Treaty of Paris 1782, a peace Psalm 105:1-4 agreement with England which ended the Revolution; Give the Lord thanks and invoke him by name, make his and the United States Constitution 1787. deeds known in the world around. -
2 3Rd 25Th ANNUAL RANGER HALL of FAME
25th ANNUAL RANGER HALL OF FAME JUNE 28, 2017 FORT BENNING GEORGIA 2 3rd RANGER MEMORIAL Dedicated To All Rangers Past, Present, & Future Fort Benning, Georgia United States Army Ranger Hall of Fame 25th Annual Induction Ceremony June 28, 2017 NOMINATING COMMITTEE Airborne Rangers of the Korean War 75th Ranger Regiment Association Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade, The National Ranger Association 75th Ranger Regiment, The Ranger Regiment Association United States Army Ranger Association World Wide Army Ranger Association SELECTION COMMITTEE President - GEN (RET) William F. Kernan Commander, ARTB - COL Douglas G. Vincent Commander, 75th RGR RGT - COL Marcus S. Evans CSM, ARTB - CSM Victor A. Ballesteros CSM, 75th RGR RGT - CSM Craig A. Bishop Airborne Rangers of the Korean War Association 75th Ranger Regiment Association United States Army Ranger Association World Wide Army Ranger Association The members of the Ranger Hall of Fame Selection Board are proud to introduce the 2017 Ranger Hall of Fame inductees. The Ranger Hall of Fame began to honor and preserve the spirit and contributions of America’s most ex- traordinary Rangers in 1992. The members of the Ranger Hall of Fame Selection Board take meticulous care to ensure that only the most extraordinary Rangers earn induction, a difficult mission given the high caliber of all nom- inees. Their precepts are impartiality, fairness, and scrutiny. Select Ranger Units and associations representing each era of Ranger history impartially nominate induc- tees. The Selection Board scrutinizes each nominee to ensure only the most extraordinary contributions receive acknowledgement. Each Ranger association and U.S. Army MACOM may submit a maximum of 3 nominations per year. -
Vietnam Service Medal
Vietnam Service Medal What does your ribbon look like? The Vietnam Service Medal/Ribbon was awarded to all members of the United States Armed Forces serving in Vietnam and contiguous waters or airspace there over. Members of the Armed Forces of the United States in Thailand, Laos, or Cambodia, or the airspace there over, during eligible periods and serving in direct support of operations in Vietnam. The Vietnam Service Medal is a military award which was created in 1965 by order of President Lyndon B. Johnson. The medal is issued to recognize military service during the Vietnam War and is authorized to service members in every branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, provided they meet the qualification criteria in United States Department of Defense regulation DoD 1348. The Vietnam Service Medal is presented to any service member who served on temporary duty for more than thirty consecutive days, or 60 non-consecutive days, attached to or regularly serving for one, or more, days with an organization participating in or directly supporting ground (military) operations or attached to or regularly serving for one, or more, days aboard a naval vessel directly supporting military operations in the Republic of Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos within the defined combat zone (DoD 1348 C6.6.1.1.5. revised September 1996) between the dates of 1961-11-15 and 1973-03-28, and from 29 April, 1975 to 30 April, 1975. For those service members who supported Vietnam Operations from another country within Southeast Asia, DoD maintains (proximity to threat) as the disqualifying factor for Vietnam Service Medal eligibility. -
Three War Soldier Shortly After Finishing High School, Eighteen-Year
Three War Soldier Shortly after finishing high school, eighteen-year-old Guy Hector McCarey, Jr. of Walhalla enlisted in the United States Army. It was June 1943 and the world was engulfed in war from the broad expanses of the Pacific to the hot, dry fields of Sicily. McCarey, who had attended high schools in Charlotte, Walhalla and Florida, enlisted at Camp Blanding, near Jacksonville, FL and served in the European Theatre during World War II. After the war, he attended Clemson College as a veteran, serving as an ROTC cadet second lieutenant and graduating in January, 1950 with a degree in English. McCarey returned to the Army as an officer and was soon in the midst of another war, this time in Korea. Following his assignment there, he returned for a tour of duty in Germany. In 1964, McCarey was serving a peacetime tour of duty as the executive officer of the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry in Korea. His driver at the time was Richard Bradley. Forty-five years later, Bradley would describe McCarey as “quite a soldier…a refined gentleman…[who] was also an accomplished pianist.” Bradley remembered that after the Tonkin Bay incident in August 1964, during which North Vietnamese torpedo boats allegedly attacked the destroyer USS Maddox, “Major McCarey told me he was going to volunteer to go to Vietnam.” The Tonkin Gulf incident would lead to a massive escalation of US involvement in Vietnam, beginning with greater assistance to the South Vietnamese forces already in the field fighting North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. McCarey’s transfer was approved and in 1965 he was assigned to Advisory Team 70, working as senior advisor to the 1st Battalion, 7th Regiment of the Army of Vietnam’s (ARVN) 5th Infantry Division. -
January and February
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA Office of the National Chaplain FOUAD KHALIL AIDE -- Funeral service for Major Fouad Khalil Aide, United States Army (Retired), 78, will be Friday, November 13, 2009, at 7 p.m. at the K.L. Brown Funeral Home and Cremation Center Chapel with Larry Amerson, Ken Rollins, and Lt. Col. Don Hull officiating, with full military honors. The family will receive friends Friday evening from 6-7 p.m. at the funeral home. Major Aide died Friday, November 6, 2009, in Jacksonville Alabama. The cause of death was a heart attack. He is survived by his wife, Kathryn Aide, of Jacksonville; two daughters, Barbara Sifuentes, of Carrollton, Texas, and Linda D'Anzi, of Brighton, England; two sons, Lewis Aide, of Columbia, Maryland, and Daniel Aide, of Springfield, Virginia, and six grandchildren. Pallbearers will be military. Honorary pallbearers will be Ken Rollins, Matt Pepe, Lt. Col. Don Hull, Jim Hibbitts, Jim Allen, Dan Aide, Lewis Aide, VVA Chapter 502, and The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge. Fouad was commissioned from the University of Texas ROTC Program in 1953. He served as a Military Police Officer for his 20 years in the Army. He served three tours of duty in Vietnam, with one year as an Infantry Officer. He was recalled to active duty for service in Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He was attached to the FBI on their Terrorism Task Force because of his expertise in the various Arabic dialects and cultures. He was fluent in Arabic, Spanish and Vietnamese and had a good working knowledge of Italian, Portuguese and French. -
Frederick A. Allen Corporal Frederick A. Allen Enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in June 1968 in Auburn, New York for a Two-Year
Frederick A. Allen Corporal Frederick A. Allen enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in June 1968 in Auburn, New York for a two-year tour. Upon completion of basic training at Parris Island and infantry training regiment at Camp Geiger, Frederick joined Charlie Co. 13th Engineer Battalion, 5th Marine Division and then transferred to 1st Marine Division where he served as a combat engineer. Frederick began serving in Vietnam in 1969. His first detail was in An Hoa sweeping the road with a metal detector for mines and booby traps, every day for 30 days. As a demolition expert, his first attachment was with the 5th Marines. With the 5th Marines, Frederick was part of the operation in “Dodge City,” so called by troops because of its “shoot-em-up” characteristics. The area 10 miles south of Da Nang was familiar ground for the Marines. It was about five miles wide and three miles long. Frederick said “Dodge City” and “The Arizona Territory” were dreadful places during his tour in Vietnam, the former rife with booby traps and the latter rife with aggressive enemy forces. Frederick spent his last three months of deployment in Da Nang, where he taught demolition school. He instructed incoming Marines on identifying different booby traps, punji pits, and unexploded ordnances, and taught the proper use of C-4 explosives to help mitigate and eliminate the threat to our troops. CORPORAL FREDERICK A. ALLEN, U.S. MARINE CORPS (NOMINATED BY ANTHONY COLELLA) Anthony Martin “Marty” DeFasio Private Martin DeFasio began his military service in the U.S. -
Patrolling Fall
PATROLLING WINTER 2007 75 TH RANGER REGIMENT ASSOCIATION, INC. VOLUME 22 ISSUE III Color Guard, Dedication of First Ranger Battalion, 75th Infantry Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, GA, October 18, 2007. Photo by J. Chester Officers’ Messages ..................................1-7 General ....................................8-24 & 67-73 Unit Reports ........................................25-66 CHINA - BURMA - INDIA VIETNAM IRAN GRENADA PANAMA IRAQ SOMALIA AFGHANISTAN PATROLLING – WINTER 2007 WHO WE ARE: The 75th Ranger Regiment Association, Inc., is a regis - We have funded trips for families to visit their wounded sons and husbands tered 501 (c) corporation, registered in the State of Georgia. We were while they were in the hospital. We have purchased a learning program founded in 1986 by a group of veterans of F/58, (LRP) and L/75 (Ranger). soft ware for the son of one young Ranger who had a brain tumor removed. The first meeting was held on June 7, 1986, at Ft. Campbell, KY. The Army took care of the surgery, but no means existed to purchase the OUR MISSION: learning program. We fund the purchase of several awards for graduates 1. To identify and offer membership to all eligible 75th Infantry Rangers, of RIP and Ranger School. We have contributed to each of the three Bat - and members of the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol talion’s Memorial Funds and Ranger Balls, and to the Air - Companies, Long Range Patrol Companies, Ranger borne Memorial at Ft. Benning. Companies and Detachments, Vietnamese Ranger Advi - We have bi-annual reunions and business meetings. Our sors of the Biet Dong Quan; members of LRSU units that Officers, (President, 1st & 2nd Vice-Presidents, Secretary trace their lineage to Long Range Patrol Companies that & Treasurer), are elected at this business meeting. -
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project WOLFGANG J. LEHMANN Interviewed By
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project WOLFGANG J. LEHMANN Interviewed by: Robert Martens Initial interview date: May 9, 1989 Copyright 1998 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Vietnam 973- 975 Paris Agreements and U.S. presence in Vietnam Hanoi(s 975 offensive Effects of Watergate ,ole of Soviet Union and China .nternational Commission for Control and supervision Economic and political situation in South Vietnam South Vietnamese military Mathias ,esolution 975 .ntervie0 12 Vietnam 973- 975 March 975 Evacuating Plaiku and 3ontum Evacuation planning Evacuating Consulate 4eneral Early April 975 Evacuating Vietnamese employees to 4uam U.S. relations 0ith South Vietnam Evacuations contractors, dependents, 6 nonessential personnel Problems 0ith evacuations Staff performance ,emoving U.S. documents 8ate April 975 Air attack on flight line ,emoving the embassy(s banyan tree ,ocket attack on DAO compound 1 Operation 9Fre:uent Winds; Decision to continue evacuation at night Final evacuation Conclusion The 0arden system Summary of evacuation INTERVIEW : Wolf Lehmann went to Vietnam in June 1973, initially as Consul General in the city of Can Tho, which is located in the Me,ong Delta. He then went to Saigon in March 1974 as Deputy Chief of Mission to Ambassador Graham Martin. For fre1uent periods he was Charg2 d3 Affaires during that 13 months or so prior to the final fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. This period from the time that Mr. Lehmann arrived in Vietnam was one in which support for the war in the 6nited States was declining. We were getting into the beginning of the second Ni8on Administration. -
Vol. 57, No. 5 11 Into a Building, and Was Wounded When He Was Distinguished Flying Cross
HARRIMAN, Stanley L. Chief Warrant Officer Two For gallantry in action on 1-2 March 2002 during the battle of Shah-e-Kot.6 Harriman’s officially issued citation and Silver Star certificate are at Figures 12 and 13. JOHNS, Stephan, Sfc., U.S. Special Operations Command For gallantry in action on 30 May 2004. While serving as a sniper on a Special Operations Team, Sfc. Johns was in the last helicopter of a group mounting an assault on al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in a valley in northeast Afghanistan. When his helicopter was hit and briefly forced down, Sfc. Johns jumped out and set up a one-man defensive position between a group of enemy fighters and the main American assault group. Alone on the ground for 30 minutes before being picked up by another helicopter, Sfc. Johns killed nine enemy fighters who repeatedly rushed him.7 Figure 14: Lieutenant Colonel Paul J. LaCamera. LaCAMERA, Paul J. Lt. Col., 1st Bn., 87th PRYOR, Anthony S., MSgt., Co. A, 1st Bn., 5th Infantry Regt., 10th Mount. Div. Special Forces Group (Airborne) For gallantry in action against the enemy during For gallantry in action during a night raid on a the period of 25 February 2002 to 14 March 2002, suspected al Qaida and Taliban compound north while serving as the Task Force Commander for of Kandahar, Afghanistan in January 2002. While Task Force 1-87 Infantry as part of the coalition under heavy fire, MSgt. Pryor killed shot and killed Joint Task Force Mountain, Bagram, Afghanistan, three enemy fighters. He was then attacked from in direct support of Operation Anaconda. -
Spring 2019 75Th Ranger Regiment Association, INC. Volume 31 Issue Ll
PATROLLING Spring 2019 75th Ranger Regiment Association, INC. Volume 31 Issue ll Merrill’s Marauder and Point du Hoc Vets start the BRC/Photo-SOJ Patrolling Grenade Toss/Photo-SOJ Patrolling At the Finish Line/Photo-Patrick Albright MCoE CHINA—BURMA—INDIA—KOREA—VIETNAM—IRAN—GRENADA—PANAMA—IRAQ—SOMALIA—AFGHANISTAN TO RUN ©2018 H-D or its affiliates. HARLEY-DAVIDSON, HARLEY, H-D, and the Bar and Shield Logo are among the trademarks of H-D U.S.A., LLC. Third-party trademarks are the property property the are trademarks Third-party LLC. U.S.A., H-D of trademarks H-D, and the Bar Shield Logo are among HARLEY, ©2018 H-D or its affiliates. HARLEY-DAVIDSON, closed the highest paved roadway in U.S. to show true power of Milwaukee-Eight® engines. We Closed Roadway. owners. respective their of FEEL THE POWER OF THE MILWAUKEE-EIGHT ® 114. The size of the news for touring riders this year can be measured in ft. lbs. Depending on model and configuration, you get up to 121 ft. lbs. of peak torque from the Milwaukee-Eight® 114 that’s available in the Road Glide® Special, Street Glide® Special, Road King® Special, Road Glide® Ultra, Ultra Limited and Ultra Limited Low. Feel it for yourself. Unleash one for a test run at your dealer. Take a test ride. h-d.com/testride www.75thrra.org—June Issue-2019 1 75th Ranger Regiment Association Editor’s Corner PO Box 348360 By Stephen Odin Johnson—Editor Sacramento, CA 95834-8360 www.75thrra.org Hello Patriots! President On the front cover of Patrolling, a Merrill’s Marauder and Point du Hoc 2nd Richard S.