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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.
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