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Patrolling Fall 2003 PATROLLING FALL 2004 75TH RANGER REGIMENT ASSOCIATION, INC. VOLUME 19 ISSUE II Recon Team from F/50 LRP (ABN) C. Officers’ Messages ----------------------------------1-9 1968-1969. L to R; David Regenthal, Tom General ----------------------------------10-25 & 60-72 Fevurly, Douglas Pollock, Patric Carr, Ivan Brown & Charles Long. Unit Reports --------------------------------------26-59 CHINA - BURMA - INDIA VIETNAM IRAN GRENADA PANAMA IRAQ SOMALIA AFGHANISTAN PATROLLING – FALL 2004 CPT Mike McNamara, Senior Advisor, 32 nd Vietnamese Ranger BN. (far right), flanked by CPT Xuan (center), 32 nd BDQ BN Commander & COL Sid Berry, Senior Advisor, 7 th ARVN Division. Xuan is holding the noted Secretary of Defense McNamara’s sign. (See BDQ Article). PATROLLING – FALL 2004 A/75-D/17 LRP-V Corps LRRP 3rd BN, 75th RANGER REGT Tom Brizendine UNIT DIRECTORS John R. Edmunds 14424 Magnolia Creek Dr. 54 Lee Road 985 L/75 – F/58 LRP – 1/101st LRRP Foley, AL 36535 Phenix City, AL 36870 Randall White H-251- 945-3278 H-334- 448-4724 N4256 Powell Lake Rd. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Wetmore, MI 49895 (906) 387-2318 B/75 – C/58 LRP – VII CORPS LRRP rd Email: [email protected] LRRP DETACHMENT- 3 ID Marc L. Thompson Michael McClintock 80 Rock Ridge Road 2323 Armada Way M/75 – 71st LRP – 199th LRRP Morgantown, PA 19543 San Mateo, CA 94403 Steve Houghton H-610-913-8183 H-650- 341-7331 6300 Lake Road C-610-763-2756 Email: [email protected] F-610-873-8665 Six Lakes, MI 48886 H-989-352-7308 [email protected] ARVN RANGER ADV, (BDQ) Email: [email protected] Mike Martin C/75 – E/20 LRP P. O. Box 1463 th rd Steve (Doc) Gove N/75 – 74 LRP – 173 LRRP Tullahoma, TN 37388 425 Keenon Dr. Reed Cundiff H-931-455-3824 Cataula, GA 31804 125 San Ysidro Email: [email protected] H-706-660-9353 Las Cruces, NM Email: [email protected] H-505- 523-5081 Email: [email protected] D/75 The following individuals are th John J. Kingeter O/75 – 78th LRP appointed by the President of the 75 526 Lavina Dr. Ranger Regiment Association to their Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 POSITION VACANT respective positions in order to H-717- 766-1484 facilitate the day-to-day operation of Email: Tom Delany: [email protected] P/75 – 79th LRP the Association. th Bill Davis E/75 - E/50 LRP – 9 DIV LRRP 50 Montell Street Association VA Advocate Robert Copeland Oakland, CA 94611 Dan Nate 8 Fieldstone Gate H-510- 655- 8962 408 Elm Street Spruce Grove, AB Canada T7X2Z2 Email: [email protected] Woodbury Heights, NJ 08097 H-780-962-0114 H-856-848-9174 [email protected] Email: [email protected] D/151 LRP/RANGER Web Master Tom Blandford th SJ “Peter” Parker F/75 – F/50 – 25 DIV LRRP 5882 Hollow Oak Trail [email protected] Joe Little Carmel, IN 46033-9567 Health – PTSD 10129 W. Highland Ave H-317- 846-6374 Mike Wise Phoenix, AZ 86037 Email: [email protected] [email protected] H-623- 877-3797 Health – Cancer Email: [email protected] F/51 LRP Tom Athanasiou Russell Dillon [email protected] G/75 – E/51 LRP – 196th LRRP 39 Pearl St. Health – HEP-C William (Bill) Schwartz Tom Nash Wakeman, OH 44889 [email protected] 9 Prospect Place H-440- 839-2607 Email: [email protected] Gold Star Mother Advocate Kearny, NJ 07032 Sandee Rouse Email: [email protected] [email protected] th HQ, 75 RANGER REGT Gold Star Wife Advocate H/75 – E/52 LRP – 1st CAV LRRP Richard (Rick) Barella Sandy Harris William T. Anton PSC 45 Box 1248 [email protected] H-702- 307-1428 APO AE 09468 Association Legal Counsel C-702-592-1850 John Chester F-702-924-7700 PH 011-44-1423-507480 [email protected] Email: [email protected] Cell 011-44-7711-129772 James Savage Email: [email protected] Association Photographer I/75 – F/52 LRP – 1st DIV LRRP Patrick Bassanti Dave Hill [email protected] 1st BN, 75th RANGER REGT 564 Everglades Ln. Graphic Artist Roger B. Brown Dave Walker Livermore, CA 94550 8588 McKee Road [email protected] H-925- 373-1363 Upatoi, GA 31829 State Coordinator Email: [email protected] H-706-561-4079 Tom Gage Email: [email protected] [email protected] Unit Directors Reunion Coordinator K/75 – E/58 LRP – 4th DIV LRRP 2nd BN, 75th RANGER REGT David Cummings Roger T. Crunk Rich Hecht [email protected] Association Chaplin 1159 19 Road nd 16706 132 Ave E. Bob Smyers Fruita, CO 81521 Puyallup, WA 98374 [email protected] H-970-858-4579 H-253-446-9928 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] - 1 - PATROLLING – FALL 2004 75th Ranger Regiment Association P. O. Box 10970 Baltimore, MD 21234 WEB SITE & www.75thrra.org President Emmett Hiltibrand 6459 Adams Park Dr. MAGAZINE NEWS Columbus, GA 31909 H-706-323-5426 Cell-706-587-0745 [email protected] The Association web site and Patrolling magazine are the windows of the 75th Ranger Vice President Regiment Association, Inc. They are the principal means of communication from the Bill Bullen P.O. Box 34 Officers and Unit Directors to our members and the principal means of attracting new Palm, PA 18070 members. These two media sources, like the Association itself, are the property and H-215-679-8856 responsibilities of all the members. We are going to highlight, in each issue, new features Cell-215-828-5645 Fax-215-679-4756 of each, and what our members can do to support and enhance both. Secretary/Patrolling Editor John Chester 3208 Rueckert Avenue Web site: Baltimore, MD 21214 Somehow I have talked S. J. ‘Peter’ Parker, into taking over the job as webmaster. A little H-410-426-1391 Cell-410-382-9344 intimidation, blackmail and coercion goes a long way. At any rate, Peter is a real Fax410-426-0243 professional at web site management and will jump start our web site’s entry to the next [email protected] level. Treasurer Peter’s vision includes making access easier for Unit Directors and Officers of the Richard K. Benner Association to add content to their section of the web site. 543 Maple Court Peter is also the CEO of a an active Company, so if anyone out there can help with HTML, Bensalem, PA 19020 Cell-215-205-1230 Dreamweaver, PHP, Mysql, Database, CSS Etc., please contact Peter (see Web Master [email protected] article), or me. We also need graphic artwork, pictures and articles for the web site. Any Association is only as good as the people who work to keep it going. Please help by Patrolling is published quarterly by the 75th Ranger Regiment Association, Inc., and is volunteering your time and talent to help the Association. If it can’t be the web site, help mailed third class postage, under postal permit with the magazine. There is always something that needs doing. We have such a diverse #75, Duncansville, PA pool of talent, if everyone pitched in, we will be the best an Association can be. The opinions expressed by the Officers, Unit Directors, Editor and other writers are entirely RLTW - Strength & Honor Emmett W. Hiltibrand their own and are not to be considered an official expression or position of the Association. Advertisements for products or services do not constitute an endorsement by Patrolling Magazine: the Association. Now that I’m wearing two shirts for a little while, I need to get some help with the Manuscripts, photographs and drawings are submitted at the risk of the individual magazine. What I envision, is a group of Associate editors. Ideally, if we had five or six, submitting the material. Captions must be each could be responsible for several units and for some of the health and legislative submitted with any photographs or graphics. articles. They would dun the Unit Directors, edit the copy that they receive from them, and The Officers and the Editor reserve the right to edit submissions for clarity and space then forward them to me for layout and final edit. This would save time and apportion the constraints. Every precaution will be taken to workload a little more equitably. If you can send and receive e-mail and attachments preserve the intent and scope of the author. The (TEXT AND PHOTOS) and have MS Word, and have some time to donate to your Officers and Editor reserve the right to refuse any submission, that is in bad taste, offensive or Association, please give me a call or drop me an e-mail. I talked to several people at the that discredits unnecessarily any individual or reunion & I will try to get to them in a day or so, but if I lost the contact information, please group. get ahold of me anyway. I have been like a one armed paper hanger for the last couple Deadlines are the 15th of February, May, August, and November for the Spring, Summer, weeks and I haven’t found all the stuff I brought back from Tacoma yet. Fall and Winter Issues respectively. POSTMASTER Send address corrections to: Patrolling, PO Box 10970 , Baltimore, MD 21234 Notice Patrolling is printed by: A Plus Printing, Inc. 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