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75th Ranger Regiment goes covert in Pakistan

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With dramatis personae that include the CIA, Delta Force, DEVGRU, the Intelligence Support Activity, Pakistani Commandos, the Taliban, and spies from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI), this story has the makings of a future Brad Thor bestseller. The only difference is, this story happened over the course of an eight-month period for a very small team of Army Rangers from the 75th Ranger Regiment.

It was early 2006. The place: Tarbela-Ghazi Airbase in Pakistan, headquarters for the Pakistani Commandos, officially identified as the Special Services Group—one of the premiere special-operations forces of the Pakistani military. Tarbela, a mere two-hour drive from the capital of Islamabad, also acts as the forward point of countless military offensive operations in Pakistan’s northwest frontier.

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  • KEV

    Coming wings of war glad the US Rangers are in the fight as always and let’s hope the bad folks aren’t selling US Rangers tactical skills to others for blowback at home.

  • Mustang Voodoo1

    This article previously published by SOFREP 11.06.2014
    Why recycle existing articles with the current date? Make no mistake, I enjoy this website very much, but I am seeing more and more so called new articles that are nothing more than links to another website’s articles.

  • Cam A

    Too bad we didn’t know ubl was down the road a bit. (maybe it was a bit early too, 2006?) but Would have been a nice little field trip for those Rangers to take ubl out a few years earlier..just sayin..

  • Jerry Sullivan

    Likely the 75th was happy to get the job thru JSOC. Nice to be needed, whatever the reason.

  • Ranger Baggins

    Not really the Rangers’ fault, but fuck me if this isn’t a history lesson the Regiment wished it hadn’t learned. I don’t know anything about the op other than what is in this article, but I can suspect that the real reason Delta and DEVGRU were sidestepped for Rangers had more to do with the Regiment’s insatiable hunger for an expanded relevancy in JSOC combined with the other two groups desire to not train terrorist shitheads again…