Posted on Jul 23, 2022
LRRP Rangers Mission in Vietnam Jungle
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RANGERS LEAD THE WAY SHARE OF THE DAY
Super 8 movies from field missions of the LRRPs of K Company, 75th Infantry early in 1970. There are two field missions on this video. The first is a standard LRRP four man team, Romeo 18. I was the assistant team leader. Gary Heald, Billy Powers, and Mark Estopare were my teammates.
The second mission is a double LRRP team sent to the site where three LRRPS were KIA a week or two earlier. The lone survivor of that team was Sgt Jim Doss who was KIA a few months later.
Both missions would be peaceful and uneventful. You didn't expect me to be taking home movies with bullets flying, did you? In fact,, there is a definite mood swing toward frivolity as the second mission winds down and the birds are in the air.
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk SGT Charlie Lee PO2 Marco Monsalve SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth ] SSG William Jones Sgt (Join to see) SrA John Monette SFC Bernard Walko SPC Michael Terrell SMSgt Anil Heendeniya CPL Douglas Chrysler A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney GySgt Jack Wallace SGT Mark Anderson CPL LaForest Gray SGT Steve McFarland
Super 8 movies from field missions of the LRRPs of K Company, 75th Infantry early in 1970. There are two field missions on this video. The first is a standard LRRP four man team, Romeo 18. I was the assistant team leader. Gary Heald, Billy Powers, and Mark Estopare were my teammates.
The second mission is a double LRRP team sent to the site where three LRRPS were KIA a week or two earlier. The lone survivor of that team was Sgt Jim Doss who was KIA a few months later.
Both missions would be peaceful and uneventful. You didn't expect me to be taking home movies with bullets flying, did you? In fact,, there is a definite mood swing toward frivolity as the second mission winds down and the birds are in the air.
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk SGT Charlie Lee PO2 Marco Monsalve SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth ] SSG William Jones Sgt (Join to see) SrA John Monette SFC Bernard Walko SPC Michael Terrell SMSgt Anil Heendeniya CPL Douglas Chrysler A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney GySgt Jack Wallace SGT Mark Anderson CPL LaForest Gray SGT Steve McFarland
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The 75th Infantry Regiment has a proud history. Their 1st and 2nd Battalions of Rangers are the best at what they do. Then LTC Earl Rudder led his 2nd Battalion in scaling the cliffs at Point du Hoc overlooking the beaches at Normandy. Of his 800-man battalion, fewer than half reached the summit. LTC Rudder received the Distinguished Service Cross after that battle and was promoted to Colonel. When the war ended, he returned to his hometown in Texas and went back to teaching agriculture and math at the local high school. He remained in the Texas National Guard and closed out his career as a Major General and President of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (Texas A&M College). In 1961, I was a student there and member of the Corps of Cadets and served as Corps Bugler. I was honored to shake the General’s hand one Saturday afternoon after drill . General Rudder passed away after a major heart attack when he was only 70 years old. His memory lives on at Texas A&M, with a major boulevard in College Station named in his honor.
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