75th Ranger Regiment

The 75th Ranger Regiment, also known as the Army Rangers,^[3] is the premier light infantry and direct-action raid force of the United States Army Special Operations Command.^[4] The 75th Ranger Regiment is also part of Joint Special Operations Command via the Regimental Reconnaissance Company (RRC).^[2]^[5] The regiment is headquartered at Fort Moore, Georgia and is composed of a regimental headquarters company, a military intelligence battalion, a special troops battalion, and three Ranger battalions.

Not to be confused with 75th Infantry Regiment (Ranger) or 75th Infantry Regiment (United States).

75th Ranger Regiment

1984–present
1942–present (1st Battalion)
2006–present (Regimental Special Troops Battalion)

United States of America

United States Army

Special operations force

Special operations

3,623 personnel authorized:^[1]

3,566 military personnel
57 civilian personnel

U.S. Army Special Operations Command
United States Special Operations Command^[2]

Fort Moore, Georgia

Army Rangers
Airborne Rangers

Sua Sponte ("Of their own accord")
Rangers Lead the Way

Tan

www.soc.mil/rangers/75thrr.html

Colonel J.D. Keirsey

Command Sergeant Major Brett Johnson

The 75th Ranger Regiment primarily handles direct action raids in hostile or sensitive environments, often killing or capturing high-value targets. Other missions include airfield seizure, special reconnaissance, personnel recovery, clandestine insertion, and site exploitation.^[5]^[6] The regiment can deploy one Ranger battalion within eighteen hours of alert notification.^[5]

The 75th Ranger Regiment is one of the U.S. military's most extensively used units. On December 17, 2020, it marked 7,000 consecutive days of combat operations.^[7]

Organized as on 3 October 1943

5307th Composite Unit (Provisional)

Be a U.S. citizen

Be on and volunteer for assignment

active duty

Have a of 105 or higher

General Technical Score

No physical limitations ( of 111221 or better)

PULHES

Qualify and volunteer for training

Airborne

A person of good character (no pending action or drug or alcohol related incidents within 24 months)

UCMJ

Must enlist into or currently hold a found in the 75th Ranger Regiment

Military Occupational Specialty

Able to attain at minimum a

Secret clearance

Pass physical requirements which include the Ranger Fitness Test (58 push-ups, 69 sit-ups, run 5 miles in 40 minutes or less, 6 pull-ups), Water Survival Assessment, and 12-mile footmarch with a 35lb rucksack and weapon in under 3 hours

[86]

General, former platoon leader of Company A, and executive officer of Company C, former commander of Company A, 1st Ranger Battalion; former commander, Central Command.^[103]

John P. Abizaid

Lieutenant General, former commander of the 2nd Ranger Battalion; former commander, Combined Forces-Afghanistan.

David Barno

former team leader in 2nd Ranger Battalion, best selling author, music artist, celebrity/actor, and veteran entrepreneur.

Mat Best

General, spent eight years in the 75th Ranger Regiment as a company commander from 1994 to 1996, then as a battalion commander from 2004 to 2006 and regimental commander from 2007 to 2009.

Richard D. Clarke

Captain, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Colorado's 6th congressional district^[104]

Jason Crow

Colonel, established and commanded "Darby's Rangers" that later evolved into the 75th Ranger Regiment. Ranger Hall of Fame Member.

William O. Darby

Sergeant First Class, enlisted 2001, killed in action in 2011 during his 14th deployment. At the time of his death, he had the most deployments for a Ranger killed in action.^[105]^[106]

Kristoffer Domeij

General, third commander of the regiment from 1984 to 1985; former commander of 2nd Ranger Battalion; former commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), former commander U.S. Army Special Operations Command and former commander of United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM). Ranger Hall of Fame Member.

Wayne A. Downing

Sergeant First Class, American musician who played with Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mind Funk. Everman served with the 2nd Ranger Battalion and later the 3rd Special Forces Group with multiple tours to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Jason Everman

Major General, seventh commander of the regiment from 1991 to 1993; former commander, 1st Infantry Division and deputy commander of Delta Force.

David L. Grange

Command Sergeant Major, Author and retired member of Delta Force.

Eric L. Haney

Colonel, former company commander in the 2nd Ranger Battalion; was nominated three times for the Medal of Honor for his actions in Vietnam. Two were downgraded and the third was awarded.

Robert L. Howard

former sniper in the 3rd Ranger Battalion

Nicholas Irving

1st Battalion 2006-2006, followed by a medical discharge, then became an aid worker who was taken hostage and beheaded by The Islamic State.

Peter Kassig

Captain, former US Secretary of the Army.

Ryan McCarthy

General, tenth commander of the regiment from 1997 to 1999; former commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A); former Director of the Joint Staff; former Commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).

Stanley A. McChrystal

Colonel, former commander of the 3rd Ranger Battalion during the Battle of Mogadishu.

Danny McKnight

General, former 2nd Ranger Battalion Platoon Leader, former commander of Delta Force, and former Commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).

Austin S. Miller

Sergeant Major of the Army, former 1st Ranger Battalion command sergeant major and past Sergeant Major of the Army.

Glen E. Morrell

Sergeant, former member of Company B, 2d Ranger Battalion, who served at the CIA annex during the 2012 Benghazi attack.

Kris Paronto

Sergeant Major, Member of Delta Force and Medal of Honor recipient. He is the first living Delta Force Medal of Honor recipient, and first Medal of Honor recipient for Operation Inherent Resolve. He served with MSG Joshua Wheeler in the combat operation in Iraq that saw MSG Wheeler KIA, and then-SFC Payne earned Distinguished Service Cross, later upgraded to Medal of Honor. He served with Company A, 1st Ranger Battalion.

Thomas Payne

Sergeant First Class, Medal of Honor recipient for actions during a firefight in Afghanistan.

Leroy Petry

1st Lieutenant

Marshall Plumlee

Colonel, former commander of the 2nd Ranger Battalion during World War II, which he led the ranger assault on Pointe du Hoc on D-Day and was later the president of Texas A&M University.

James Earl Rudder

Sergeant First Class, Medal of Honor recipient, who was killed in action during the Battle of Mogadishu while serving as a Delta Force sniper defending a downed helicopter, started his career in 2nd Ranger Battalion.

Randy Shughart

Colonel, former commander of Company B, 3rd Ranger Battalion during the Battle of Mogadishu.

Michael D. Steele

Major, served as a staff sergeant and squad leader assigned to Task Force Ranger as a part of the 75th Ranger Regiment. Struecker and his partner, SPC Isaac Gmazel Won the Best Ranger Competition in 1996. He became commissioned as a chaplain in 2000.

Jeff Struecker

Staff Sergeant, American country music singer who served with the 3rd Ranger Battalion as part of Task Force Ranger during the Operation Restore Hope.

Keni Thomas

General, led a Ranger Rifle platoon from A Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion during the Invasion of Grenada in 1983.He was assigned as Assistant S-3, Plans/Liaison Officer with 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, Georgia until 1987.In 1989, during the Invasion of Panama, Thomas was then assigned as a company commander with 3rd Ranger Battalion. He was also the commander of Joint Special Operations Command from 2014 to 2016 and United States Special Operations Command from 2016 to 2019.

Raymond A. Thomas

Corporal, an American football player who left his National Football League career to enlist in the United States Army in May 2002; killed on 22 April 2004 (by friendly fire) as a member of the 2nd Ranger Battalion.

Pat Tillman

Captain, an American football player in the National Football League, former company Executive Officer in the 1st Ranger Battalion.

Alejandro Villanueva

General, twelfth commander of the regiment from 2001 to 2003; former Commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), former Commander of United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and former Commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM).

Joseph L. Votel

Master Sergeant, (22 November 1975 – 22 October 2015) was a United States Army Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (aka Delta Force) operator who was killed in Iraq during Operation Inherent Resolve. He was the first American service member killed in action as a result of enemy fire while fighting ISIS militants and at the time of his death was the first American to be killed in action in Iraq since November 2011. Wheeler was a highly decorated Delta Force soldier having earned 11 Bronze Star Medals including four with Valor Devices. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, the Purple Heart and the Medal of Patriotism.

Joshua Lloyd Wheeler

Sergeant, Acting US Secretary of the Army.

John Whitley

Ranger Memorial

Recondo School

Ranger School

and the movie based on it.

Black Hawk Down

Ranger Body Armor

British Commandos

— The most decorated and longest serving LRRP/Ranger unit in continuous combat.

Company E, 52nd Infantry (LRP) / H Co. 75th Infantry (Ranger)

Operation Delaware

- Primary USAF STS attached to the 75th Ranger Regiment.

17th Special Tactics Squadron

- An Israeli Defense Forces unit approximating to the 75th Ranger Regiment in role.

89th "Oz" Brigade

- Polish Special Troops Command unit modelled after the 75th Ranger Regiment.

JW AGAT

Neville, Leigh (2015), Special Forces in the War on Terror, General Military, , ISBN 978-1472807908, OCLC 889735079.

Osprey Publishing

(2012). Task Force Black: The Explosive True Story of the Secret Special Forces War in Iraq (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-1-250-00696-7. OCLC 759914001. Retrieved 11 October 2022.

Urban, Mark

Garland, Albert N.; Smyth, Howard McGaw (1965). (PDF). Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2012.

U.S. Army in World War II – Mediterranean Theater of Operations – Sicily and the Surrender of Italy

Bahmanyar, Mir (2003). . Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-627-0. OCLC 51481921.

Darby's Rangers 1942-45

Bahmanyar, Mir (2003). . Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-585-3. OCLC 51068676.

U.S. Army Ranger, 1983-2002 : sua sponte - of their own accord

(1999). Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. Berkeley, CA: Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-0-87113-738-8. Available at Archive.org.

Bowden, Mark

Bryant, Russ (2003). . St. Paul, MN: MBI Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7603-1314-5. OCLC 50478516.

To Be a U.S. Army Ranger

Bryant, Russ (2005). . St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press. ISBN 978-0-7603-2112-6. OCLC 57751354.

Weapons of the U.S. Army Rangers

Bryant, Russ (2005). . St. Paul, MN: MBI Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7603-2111-9. OCLC 58422742.

75th Rangers

Grenier, John (2005). . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84566-3. OCLC 59655870.. Extensive discussion of American colonial Rangers.

The First Way of War : American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814

(2002). Inside Delta Force. New York: Delacorte Press. ISBN 978-0385336031.

Haney, Eric L.

Shanahan, Bill (2003). (1st ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81273-6. OCLC 53895995.

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