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The Evolution of the 75th Ranger Regiment: Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment

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The Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment, or RRD, was stood up in October of 1984 as a small element within the 75th Ranger Regiment. RRD would work directly for the Regimental Commander, and help fill the intelligence gaps that he and his S2 (Intelligence Officer) had when planning upcoming combat operations which the Ranger Regiment was to participate in.

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By 1995, RRD consisted of three recon teams, each composed of six Rangers in the tradition of the Vietnam-era LRRP/Ranger patrols.  Each team would be tasked to conduct reconnaissance for each of the three Ranger battalions.  Team 1 would support 1st Ranger Battalion, Team 2 supported 2nd Ranger Battalion, and Team 3 would support 3rd Ranger Battalion.  The Team Leader of each team could be a Sergeant First Class (E-7), but more often than not it was a Staff Sergeant (E-6).  A six-man Headquarters element consisted of the RRD Commander, a Captain (O-3), an NCOIC who was a First Sergeant (E-8), two communications NCOs, a training NCO and an Operations NCO.  Housed within the 75th Ranger Regiment, RRD would take their taskings from the Regimental S2 Officer.

RRD’s nearly sole purpose in life was training to conduct recon operations on enemy airfields. Laying up in hide sites, they could eyeball the enemy’s defensive measures, analyze terrain, observe enemy troop movements, and record weather reports, all of which could be radioed back to the rear.  But RRD also carried with it a bit of a stigma at this time. In the 1990s, and well into the Global War on Terror, it could be hard to get young Ranger Sergeants to support RRD by trying out for selection.

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    Tobiathan

    clluelo What are you confused about exactly?

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    Tobiathan

    HugeFan JackMurphyRGR – somehow this thread is looking like a dinghy sprung a leak…

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    Tobiathan

    HugeFan JackMurphyRGR – mostly littoral areas and brown-water insertions; pretty much anything the Navy would consider too far inland or too insignificant for a team or their own divers imho.

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    MrCharles13

    When the 75th Ranger Regiment was reactivated in 1967, two LRP companies were initially formed.  I happened to be in the right place at the right time and volunteered for one of those companies, Co. F, 51st Inf. LRP, Airborne. Most of us were already combat veterans and Co. F personnel came from the 173rd Abn Brigade.  We all attended MACV Recondo School in Nha Trang, taught by 5th Special Forces troopers. It was a three week course on all facets of being a reconnaissance unit.  The personnel from our company were not allowed to attend the last week of the course which was water insertions, etc., because it was decided that we were immediately needed in the field and we would not be involved in water insertions. I guess the generals never heard of Cu Chi and all of the canals coming out of Cambodia.  This was also going to be a short war (around 10,000 days as it turned out)! 
    It is important to note that we conducted both Long Range Patrols and Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols.  The difference being that LRP were conducted to gather intel, snatch a prisoner if possible or just create death and destruction to the enemy in their operational area. The LRRP missions were strictly snoop and poop.  We had several Top Secret missions involving requests from certain US Intel Agencies, but our standard operation was to recon an AO with a six man team and then insert with a 12 man Hatchet Team to  disrupt the enemy’s operations and supply lines.  
    It was not feasible at that time to insert a civilian clothed team into the areas we were working because six foot whites guys or any other skin color stood out in the general population.  Our mission was to provide intel to II Field Force and they would then put Line Units on the targets we identified.  
    The present GOWT has changed the mission for the Ranger Battalions, but I have to question rather RSD is the way to go.  I know they need specific info for a Ranger Platoon, Company or Battalion before they insert them into an AO, but my opinion is that the Recon Units can provide a lot of that info and the Sat/UAV Intel can also provide more of that info.  The core of the Ranger Battalion is still an Infantry Unit that seizes an objective and holds it or moves on to another objective from that point.  As a friend of mine who served in the 2nd Ranger Battalion in Iraq said; Delta was the Ice Pick and we were the Hatchet that backed up the Ice Pick!  
    I know flexibility is one of the keys to success in the GOWT, so if RSD is needed I say go for it!
    Charlie Mike.

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    JackMurphyRGR

    RSD92 Oh man, no good deed goes unpunished!