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Best Ranger Competition
The David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition is an annual competition held in Fort Benning, Georgia, hosted by the United States Army Infantry School, Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade. It is a two-person team competition where competitors must be active military who are Ranger School, Ranger Qualified. Named after David E. Grange Jr., LTG David E. Grange Jr., the Best Ranger Competition was first held in 1982. The first competitions were limited to Ranger units, but from 1984 onwards it accepted teams from throughout the Army. As of 2018, the competition involves 50 two-person teams, mostly from the 75th Ranger Regiment and the ARTB, but also including a United States Coast Guard, Coast Guard team. The competition takes 62 hours and involves tests of physical fitness, including runs and marches, and of marksmanship. The exact composition of events changes yearly. Mike Rose is the only service member to have won BRC three times, having won each time he has entered. At Rose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1st Ranger Battalion
The 1st Ranger Battalion, currently based at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia, United States, is the first of three ranger battalions belonging to the United States Army's 75th Ranger Regiment (United States), 75th Ranger Regiment. It was originally formed shortly after the United States' entry into World War II and was modeled after the British Commandos during the war. Members from the unit were the first American soldiers to see combat in the European theatre of World War II, European theater when they participated in the failed Dieppe Raid, raid on Dieppe in France in 1942, during which three Rangers were killed and several more were captured. Later, the 1st Ranger Battalion was sent to North African Campaign, North Africa where they participated in the Operation Torch, landings in Algeria and the Tunisia Campaign, fighting in Tunisia in 1943. Also in 1943 the unit provided training cadre to train up two more Ranger battalions between the campaigns in Allied invasio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Payne (soldier)
Thomas Patrick Payne (born April 2, 1984) is an American soldier. As a Sergeant major (United States), sergeant major in the United States Army's elite Delta Force, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during a 2015 hostage rescue mission in an area of Iraqi Kurdistan, northern Iraq controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Islamic State. Payne previously served in the 75th Ranger Regiment, and as an infantry instructor. He is the first living Delta Force Medal of Honor recipient, and the first to receive the award for actions during Operation Inherent Resolve. Early life and education Payne was born on April 2, 1984, and grew up in Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina, Batesburg-Leesville and Lugoff, South Carolina, graduating from Lugoff-Elgin High School in 2002. His father is a policeman, and he has two brothers, one of whom also serves in the United States Army and the other in the United States Air Force. Army career After high school, Payne enlisted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranger Training Brigade
The Ranger School is a 62-day United States Army small unit tactics and leadership course that develops functional skills directly related to units whose mission is to engage the enemy in close combat and direct fire battles. Ranger training was established in September 1950 at Fort Benning, Georgia. The Ranger course has changed little since its inception. Since 1995, it was an eight-week course divided into three phases. The 62 day course of instruction is divided into three phases: Darby Phase, Mountain Phase, and Swamp Phase. Overview The Ranger School is open to U.S. military personnel from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force, as well as selected students from other nations allied with the United States. The course is conducted in various locations. Benning Phase occurs in and around Camp Rogers and Camp Darby at Fort Benning, Georgia. Mountain Phase is conducted at Camp Merrill, in the remote mountains near Dahlonega, Georgia. Swamp Phase is condu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Special Operations Command
The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM or SOCOM) is the unified combatant command charged with overseeing the various special operations component commands of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force of the United States Armed Forces. The command is part of the Department of Defense and is the only unified combatant command created by an Act of Congress. USSOCOM is headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. The idea of an American unified special operations command had its origins in the aftermath of Operation Eagle Claw, the disastrous attempted rescue of hostages at the American embassy in Iran in 1980. The ensuing investigation, chaired by Admiral James L. Holloway III, the retired Chief of Naval Operations, cited lack of command and control and inter-service coordination as significant factors in the failure of the mission. Since its activation on 16 April 1987, U.S. Special Operations Command has participated in many operations, fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
101st Airborne Division
The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) ("Screaming Eagles") is a light infantry division (military), division of the United States Army that specializes in air assault military operation, operations. The 101st is designed to plan, coordinate, and execute brigade-sized air assault operations that can be conducted in one period of darkness, at distances up to 500 nautical miles, to seize key terrain and hold it for up to 14 days. In recent years, the 101st was active in foreign internal defense and counterterrorism operations in Iraq, in Afghanistan in 2015–2016, and in Syria, as part of Operation Inherent Resolve in 2018–2021. Established in 1918, the 101st Division was first constituted as an airborne unit in 1942. During World War II, it gained renown for its role in Operation Overlord (the Normandy landings, D-Day landings and American airborne landings in Normandy, airborne landings on 6 June 1944, in Normandy, France); Operation Market Garden; the liberation of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Struecker
Jeffery Dean Struecker (born March 7, 1969)Curriculum Vitae , Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; retrieved June 2018Congressional Record 107th Congress (2001–2002) , thomas.loc.gov; retrieved February 2011 is an American author, pastor, and former United States Army United States Army Rangers, Ranger who was involved in the Battle of Mogadishu (1993), Battle of Mogadishu in 1993.Kelly, Clint "Facing Fear" , HomeLife Magazine, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
25th Infantry Division (United States)
The 25th Infantry Division (nicknamed "Tropic Lightning") is a United States Army division based at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. The division, which was activated on 1 October 1941 in Hawaii, conducts military operations primarily in the Asia-Pacific region. Its present deployment is composed of light infantry and aviation units. Tropic Lightning soldiers regularly train with other U.S. military branches to practice and maintain joint operations capabilities. The climate and terrain of the Pacific region demands Tropic Lightning soldiers be able to operate in physically demanding and harsh environments. In 2014, the division opened the Jungle_warfare#United_States, Jungle Operations Training Center—the first such school in the Army since the closing of the old Jungle Warfare School at Fort Sherman, Panama Canal Zone. Joint operations and training with partner states herald a new chapter in the history of Tropic Lightning—America's Pacific Division. The division was original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
82nd Airborne Division
The 82nd Airborne Division is an Airborne forces, airborne infantry division (military), division of the United States Army specializing in Paratrooper, parachute assault operations into hostile areasSof, Eric"82nd Airborne Division" ''Spec Ops Magazine'', 25 November 2012. Archived from thoriginalon 1 September 2017. with a United States Department of Defense, US Department of Defense mandate to be "on-call to fight any time, anywhere" at "the knife's edge of technology and readiness."82nd Airborne Division United States Army, dated 16 May 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018 Primarily based at Fort Bragg, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division is part of the XVIII Airborne Corps. The 82nd Airborne Division is the US Army's most strategically mobile division. The division was organized on 25 August 1917, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Ranger Battalion
The 3rd Ranger Battalion is the third of three Ranger Battalions belonging to the United States Army's 75th Ranger Regiment. It is currently based at Fort Benning, Georgia. History World War II Ranger Organization by Major Herman Dammer After the impressive performance of the 1st Ranger Battalion in the North Africa Campaign the 3rd Ranger Battalion was organized on 19 June 1943 in Morocco. The battalion was made up of American volunteers and led by Major Herman Dammer. The Italian Campaign in Italy The battalion participated in the invasion of Sicily and the invasion of Italy; it was essentially destroyed at the Battle of Cisterna in early 1944 and subsequently deactivated. Merrill’s Marauders The other World War II unit that 3rd Ranger Battalion draws lineage from is the 5307 Provisional Unit, also called Merrill's Marauders. This unit was consolidated 10 August 1944 with Company F, 475th Infantry Regiment (Long Range Penetration, Special) (constituted 25 May 1944 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Ranger Battalion
The 2nd Ranger Battalion, currently based at Joint Base Lewis–McChord south of Seattle, Washington, United States, is one of three ranger battalions belonging to the United States Army's 75th Ranger Regiment. History World War II Formation of Ranger Battalions On 1 April 1943 the 2nd Ranger Battalion was formed at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, along with the 5th Ranger Battalion. Both battalions were officially activated in September 1943 and shipped to Great Britain where they were prepared for Operation Overlord as part of six ranger battalions of the Second World War. Assault at Point du Hoc On 6 June 1944, Dog, Easy, and Fox Companies, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James Rudder, landed at Pointe du Hoc from LCA landing craft and specially modified DUKW "Ducks" operated by the Royal Navy. The 225 rangers had set off from Britain to launch an assault upon the cliffs overlooking the English Channel. In order to augment the strength of the 2nd Battalion, members of the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
