I was with a Line Company for about two months. They were careless, noisy and didn't seem to care. Then I was lucky enough to join the LRRP as a Pointman. Later graduating from a school my identifier was T2. Six man teams, three nights and four day missions normally but not always.. We traveled light, ate mostly LRRP's, freeze dried meals. I always cut my own trail. Never traveled the Ho Chi Min trail. That was a superhighway. Up mountains and down valleys. Our missions were sometimes in Laos, Cambodia and the last one was in North Viet Nam. You don't ask questions. These units were strictly voluntary. You could leave anytime. One saying was, "If you quit they will just send you back to Vietnam."
SOMETIMES THIS BROTHERS WERE GONE FOR A LONG TIME BY THEM SELFS. THIS WERE CALLED HUNTER KILLER TEAMS THE 9TH MANSHOUSS. AND THE 4TH AIRBORNE RANGER. MACKENZIE RAIDERS. ALSO LONG RANGE RECON. LRRPS .THE 173TH PICKED UP THE NICKNAME THE HEARD. THE VC CALLED THAM. PINK. SKY SOLDIERS. THIS MAN. ARE TO BE RESPECTED ALWAYS. AND I WILL STAND UP FOR THEM. YES. THE 173TH AIRBORNE RANGER AND LIARP AND RECON PILOTS. AND THE LITTLE BEARS. AND THE AIRFORCE. AND THE 9TH HUNTER KILLER TEAM. AND THE 4TH AIRBORNE RANGER LARRP.TEAMS THE SPICAL FORCES THE 5TH AND THE 27THID WOLF HOUNDS EASY .THAT WALKED POINT FOR THE WOLF HOUNDS THAT HAS JUST PASSED AWAY. AND MY FRIEND MICK.SLIVER STAR THAT IS STILL WITH THE 25THID GOLDEN DRAGONS DELTA FORCE AND OUR TEAMS WILL BE GETTING TOGETHER IN HAWAII ON SEPTEMBER COME I INVITE EVERYONE OF YOU. WARRIOR'S. THE 25THID GOLDEN DRAGONS DELTA FORCE AND AIRBORNE RANGER UNITS WILL BE THERE MACKENZIE RAIDERS AND THE 27THID WOLF HOUNDS AND THE 9TH AND THE 4TH. AND MAYBE LOTS OF RESECTED BROTHERS LIKE YOU WILL COME. THANKS AIRBORNE RANGERS AND MARINES AND THE NAVY FROM THE MICON DELTA RIVER RATS. IF YOU WERE IN COMBAT AND SHADE BLOOD. YOU TRUTHFULLY MY BROTHER. CARLOS GARZAJR THE AMERICAN TUNNEL RAT. I AM PROUD OF EVERY ONE OF YOU.
I can’t imagine being miles deep into enemy territory then getting injured by a booby trap and having to trek tens of miles back to your evac point while in agony. Those were brave men.
@@richardbowers3647 Probably true, i mean a fire base is a large compound with trees cleared all around it. A Ranger is supposed to be trained in hiding, and can probably do so. So id wager he has better chances of surviving in the trees than in a fire base.
My real name is Al Barnes I was in recon training at fort knox, .most all went to Vietnam l got pulled out of. Training to work on the m114s that we trained with don't know if the lrrp s was the same as recon , a buddy of mine did go to nam his name was butch Winkle from texas I checked the wall in dc did not see his name hope he is alive and doing well thank all for your service . Ps I got sent to Thomas not as a mechanic but worked with the stevedores at a deep water port in support of the thi
My Uncle was a LRRP in Vietnam during the early 70's. He was the greatest man and the best soldier I ever knew. It was a privilege to learn all I have from him. RIP
you guys did a great job over there, and i thank you for your service. thanks to gary linderer for his unblinking retelling of the missions he and the teams went on. we need these storys told so the heros and they're sacrifice's are never forgotten.... you guys rock !!!!
I was a 173rd LRRP. Our missions consisted primarily of hunter-killer operations involving night ambushes, night artillery engagements, day time patrolling/ambush. I was an oifficer certified artillery observer, meaning that I completed the Artillery Officer's Course at IFFV An Khe, and the Naval Artillery Course. I( we) operated out of LZ English and English North in the An Lao, Tiger Mountains, two missions to AN Khe above the Mang Yang Pass. I preferred to shell their encampments rather than
Sorry gentleman , I am a little late to the conversation. I would just like to add , THE SIX SILENT MEN by Reynel Martinez( sorry I don’t know how to do italics on iPhone ) is a must read .
this note posted in memory of Lt John Henry Lattin, Class of 1966 Virginia Military Institute, graduated June 1966 killed in action 15 Dec 1967 while on long range recon patrol Republic of South Vietnam. Rest in Peace.
Do any of you LRRP’s know or remember my uncle Bill “Wilkie” Wilkinson? He was in Charlie Co. He is my best friend, role model, Dad figure, and most of all my Hero! He past away last year from Covid complications. I miss him every second of every day. He followed the Ranger creed until the day he died, and taught me my life lessons growing up. Thank you to all of you for keeping him alive over there so I was able to have someone to look up to!
Have you reached out to the VA or does he have any records of the people he served with? Even if for some reason he cut everyone out of his life from his time in the service, I feel like you could probably start with your local VA. If you have his name, rank, birthdate, dog tags, and other information I can’t imagine it would be too difficult to find out if you put in the effort - unless of course they don’t want to be contacted.
My Uncle Larry,was MY inspiration to join the United States Army.He was based out of Phu Bai.101st Lima Rangers.And he always told me,about his BUDDY.TROTTER.They served in I Corps.The northern highlands.I believe I met that man in Marietta,Ga.One evening,he told me:"yes,I remember your uncle,tell him ALL THE BATTALIONS are getting a get together down at BENNING.------
Had a Navy friend in the early 80s told me after he went to electronics school in late 60's as a E-4 was sent to Nam and was assigned to place monitoring devices with a squad of Marines. They painted KBC on his jacket. Kill Before Capture. Made him really nervous. No combat training and only a 45.
Man I just realized how quietly you'd have to move in that type of environment. Even deer make noise at night. Humans are kind of clumsy by comparison.
Knew a guy in LRRPS who worked at Anheuser Busch in Southern California. When he came to training classes, for electrical products at my company he always brought two cases of beer. He told me that at night in the “bush” they would string wire between trees and stand watch behind it so if they fell asleep they would fall onto the wire causing them to wake up.
Older now.brave six and more god bless you, some don't understand....free world is not free....sacrifice is courage........Jim,carry on brave ones that got it done. Amen.
my uncle was a LRRP and told me of this relatively secret helicopter that was HEAVILY armed and even had a cannon on the side of it. he said they would radio in and say bring this helicopter in(forgot the name) and "make it rain". i thought that was cool and was wondering if anyone heard a similar story.
My best man at my wedding was chinook crew chief, medivac Marine corps. He worked with me 8 yrs on an advanced life support ambulance. He said many times he dropped off a man and a dog. Many he never saw again and some he evac out a 100 miles away months later. 🍺👍🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸
later in the war the lrrp's were used more and more for ambush and they were good hunter killer teams when they had to be. but the main job for a lrrp was recon. the generals wanted a body count and they would use the lrrps to seek out the enemy make contact and try build on that by sending more troops in. they were used as bait. sad but true..
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE! My best friend, Royce Clark (Co H, 75th Reg, 101st Air Calvary), was badly wounded when his team was ambushed during the Cambodian invasion in 1970. You can read about his miraculous rescue in "LRRPS IN CAMBODIA: MIA Rescue" by Kregg P. Jorgenson (available on Amazon) … not promoting the book … just giving credit to where credit is due! Thank you all servicemen for going in my place!!
dont know who my dad was with he was there in 66-67 was a LRRP i know he was a grunt his name is roger burdette he dont talk much about that time of his life but has told me some things about LRRP i thank god for men like him and all the others who fought for my country he and all the others ae my heros
Well gotta say first time ive ever heard of LRRRP's unit bein a brit and all but they seem like bad ass mo fo's.Much respect for any man that can do a job like that.
"Six Silent Men" its a 3 book series the best I have ever read!!!! The first is writtin by Reynel Martinez The second is written by Ken Miller the third is written by Gary Linderer!!!
Ive read all the LRRP books there are to read some three or four times . Ive tried to put names with the pictures that don't have names . I couldn't find a name for the man on the cover of "The Eyes of The Eagle" by Gary Linderer His eyes tell a story in there own. He looks like the man John Kiefel in this video. I think its the receding hairline. Anyway the LRRPS are all heros in my book. Thanks for making these videos and may God Bless you.
Wow these guys were great wat balls specially point man my god doesn,t even bare thinkin about wat these men done an went through special breed altogether an nobody gave a shit about dem wen they came home an it wasn,t fair at all wat men wat courage thanks for yer service to all vietnam vets who served over there specially the lrrps great job.
A good friend was one. They all deserve tremendous respect. And their missions were of the highest value. Intel gathering. My friend, long after the war went camping/ hiking with his family. It almost drove him nuts how much noise they made, and evidence they left while going through some trail. lol.
I have to say LURP books are some of the best war reads. (And I have a lot of war books from WW2, Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan.) Charlie Rangers for example. Six Silent men series, Blood on the raisers. By far the best is the story of SOG, which is similar in nature. Not that I like the war or advertise it, but I was a paratrooper myself (trained similar to LURPs) the only volunteer unit in my country and could always relate to camaraderie, managing adverse conditions. Being different from legs (dusters we called them in my language :)). There was nothing I wouldn't have done for those badges, wings, and berets, when I was a kid and my God, was I dirty, cold, tired. But I was damned If I bitched and whined in front of buddies who were feeling just the same. Training made as a proud bunch.
Father LRRP'd for the 1st I.D. A Team 2nd Squad Trp D (air) 1/4 Cav 10/65-7/67. graduated 3 week course at Nha Trang 11/65 (before it was called recondo... It was still just Project Delta at that time) with 20 others from the unit.
Read about him in a few books! Your dad was a bad ass! I hope he's still around, and would love it if you passed him a thank you for serving from a big supporter
I was born in 1965 but by the time it was 1975 I always wanted to go to Vietnam with my uncles and Cousin. I guess it’s a family thing. May they Rest In Peace
ac130 was known as spooky. puff was a C47.we had both used in our support very frequently. i loved lrrps rations.much better than Cs.not lookin for a confrontation.
I was a LRRP TL in the highlands in 69-70. There were differences in how things were done with other units, but K Company 75th Inf Ranger, did pull teams if any one was hurt bad enough to endanger the man or the rest of the team. We operated in 4 man teams for the most part, so any injury was potentially a threat to the mission. It was not uncommon for guys to stay in if the injury was more minor or if extraction involved greater danger. The determining factors for us at least was 1: how long would it take to get to the extraction LZ and 2: how long would it take for the Choppers to get there , once the decision to extract was made.
It must be like talking about a past life experience, what they were doing in vietnam and how long ago they did it, must seem so strange for them now. Probably better off that way.
USASOG, the 5th Special Forces Group, conducted operations similar to LRRPs operations. They also established very remote bases with locals. They also trained locals to defend their villages, like Montagnards in the mountains, Ruff Puffs= RFPF( Regional Force-Popular Forces, similar to Guard and Reserve in the US) also.
Correction; We were an Infantry Platoon consisting of 4 6 man teams. We conducted missions with just six, whereas Rangers would routinely operate in teams of at least 12, plus maybe an E-6, or an officer. I was an AFO, and was part of E/2/503RD Infantry Wildcats. When there was a team out, I was part of the six man team, not 6+me. LRRPs were volunteers with at least 7 months in a line company. We used a 3 day training mission in Indian country to see if they could operate in a LRRP environment.
All I can say is God Bless and much respect. I do have a question for the individual who posted this video. Were any of the LRRP team made up of Cav Scouts or were they strictly Rangers?
@kaynie143 Yeah, plus North Vietnam had support from China. I didn't mean to suggest the SAS would have fared better in Vietnam, just that these kind of tactics were extremely effective against the communists in Malaya and I'm sure a lot that was learned there would have been passed on to American Special Forces. But I wasn't there so what do I know?
It was a real mission in a real hostile environment in the conduct of real patrol and day/night ambush, hunter/killer operations. If you snored, spoke loudly even once, farted loudly, made noise, could not secure your gear, read a map, could not follow orders, instructions, or directions and after a post-mission peer critique, you were either in or out. Most were not selected for the reasons above.
Not so. We followed orders. There was no complaining except that we had paved the way in blood, and felt we were being cheated out of closing ceremonies. We operated in 6 man teams, Rangers did too sometimes, but they were a company. We were a platoon consisting 2-6 man teams, a platoon Sargent( Pappy Roy Baumgartner), and an AFO each time a team hit the woods. The Rangers had too many men, and we felt they were a little puffed up especially since we had done the worst parts in earlier years.
E Co LRRP 52nd / H Co Rangers 75th III Corps 70' & 71.. now I'm just a handicapped combat Veteran (100%'er-combat wounds) lost my only Son in Iraq 08-2004
THANK YOU FOR GOING IN MY PLACE! My best friend, Royce Clark (Co H, 75th Reg, 101st Air Calvary), was badly wounded when his team was ambushed during the Cambodian invasion in 1970. You can read about his miraculous rescue in "LRRPS IN CAMBODIA: MIA Rescue" by Kregg P. Jorgenson (available on Amazon) … not promoting the book … just giving credit to where credit is due!
@@stevebenson3024 Don't know about LZ Ross, but I was on Baldy (196th headquarters) on mothers day May 12th 1969 when a NVA sapper company tried to over run us. Turned out bad. We lost Sgt. Scott, I was wounded by a frag, but there were lots of dead NVA in our company area the next morning.
I was with a Line Company for about two months. They were careless, noisy and didn't seem to care.
Then I was lucky enough to join the LRRP as a Pointman. Later graduating from a school my identifier was T2.
Six man teams, three nights and four day missions normally but not always.. We traveled light, ate mostly LRRP's, freeze dried meals.
I always cut my own trail. Never traveled the Ho Chi Min trail.
That was a superhighway.
Up mountains and down valleys. Our missions were sometimes in Laos, Cambodia and the last one was in North Viet Nam.
You don't ask questions. These units were strictly voluntary. You could leave anytime.
One saying was, "If you quit they will just send you back to Vietnam."
SOMETIMES THIS BROTHERS WERE GONE FOR A LONG TIME BY THEM SELFS. THIS WERE CALLED HUNTER KILLER TEAMS THE 9TH MANSHOUSS. AND THE 4TH AIRBORNE RANGER. MACKENZIE RAIDERS. ALSO LONG RANGE RECON. LRRPS .THE 173TH PICKED UP THE NICKNAME THE HEARD. THE VC CALLED THAM. PINK. SKY SOLDIERS. THIS MAN. ARE TO BE RESPECTED ALWAYS. AND I WILL STAND UP FOR THEM. YES. THE 173TH AIRBORNE RANGER AND LIARP AND RECON PILOTS. AND THE LITTLE BEARS. AND THE AIRFORCE. AND THE 9TH HUNTER KILLER TEAM. AND THE 4TH AIRBORNE RANGER LARRP.TEAMS THE SPICAL FORCES THE 5TH AND THE 27THID WOLF HOUNDS EASY .THAT WALKED POINT FOR THE WOLF HOUNDS THAT HAS JUST PASSED AWAY. AND MY FRIEND MICK.SLIVER STAR THAT IS STILL WITH THE 25THID GOLDEN DRAGONS DELTA FORCE AND OUR TEAMS WILL BE GETTING TOGETHER IN HAWAII ON SEPTEMBER COME I INVITE EVERYONE OF YOU. WARRIOR'S. THE 25THID GOLDEN DRAGONS DELTA FORCE AND AIRBORNE RANGER UNITS WILL BE THERE MACKENZIE RAIDERS AND THE 27THID WOLF HOUNDS AND THE 9TH AND THE 4TH. AND MAYBE LOTS OF RESECTED BROTHERS LIKE YOU WILL COME. THANKS AIRBORNE RANGERS AND MARINES AND THE NAVY FROM THE MICON DELTA RIVER RATS. IF YOU WERE IN COMBAT AND SHADE BLOOD. YOU TRUTHFULLY MY BROTHER. CARLOS GARZAJR THE AMERICAN TUNNEL RAT. I AM PROUD OF EVERY ONE OF YOU.
GOD BROUGHT YOU HOME. AND I AM HAPPY FOR YOU. WELL COME HOME.
Thanks for your service Pete and in an elite unit besides.
what lrrp unit were you in
Thank you for your service, and for being one that took it a step above.
I can’t imagine being miles deep into enemy territory then getting injured by a booby trap and having to trek tens of miles back to your evac point while in agony. Those were brave men.
According to their stories, these LRRP soldiers felt safer there than being back at the base camp. Just saying.
@@richardbowers3647 Probably true, i mean a fire base is a large compound with trees cleared all around it. A Ranger is supposed to be trained in hiding, and can probably do so. So id wager he has better chances of surviving in the trees than in a fire base.
In 1968, the Army changed the LRRP Company's to Ranger Companys! Thank you for your service, brothers!
I read a couple of Gary Linderer's books years ago and could not put them down,fighting sleep to finish a section
What are the names of his books?
My real name is Al Barnes I was in recon training at fort knox, .most all went to Vietnam l got pulled out of. Training to work on the m114s that we trained with don't know if the lrrp s was the same as recon , a buddy of mine did go to nam his name was butch Winkle from texas I checked the wall in dc did not see his name hope he is alive and doing well thank all for your service . Ps I got sent to Thomas not as a mechanic but worked with the stevedores at a deep water port in support of the thi
I read those books about 13 years ago. They are great
My Uncle was a LRRP in Vietnam during the early 70's. He was the greatest man and the best soldier I ever knew. It was a privilege to learn all I have from him. RIP
By the early 70s all the LRRP teams, which each Division and Brigade unit employed, had a ceremony and were changed to Ranger Companies.
you mean a ranger ? there wernt lrrps in the 70s
you guys did a great job over there, and i thank you for your service. thanks to gary linderer for his unblinking retelling of the missions he and the teams went on. we need these storys told so the heros and they're sacrifice's are never forgotten....
you guys rock !!!!
My husband did this in Vietnam. God bless all our Vietnam Vets
I was a 173rd LRRP. Our missions consisted primarily of hunter-killer operations involving night ambushes, night artillery engagements, day time patrolling/ambush. I was an oifficer certified artillery observer, meaning that I completed the Artillery Officer's Course at IFFV An Khe, and the Naval Artillery Course. I( we) operated out of LZ English and English North in the An Lao, Tiger Mountains, two missions to AN Khe above the Mang Yang Pass. I preferred to shell their encampments rather than
Didnt hunter killer teams also have a slick with an Aero Rifle Platoon along with the Loach and Cobra
The men with Green Faces!
This was my first Job in the Army 1973!
My dad was LRRP. I just came across his patch the other day. Said he served in Cambodia.
What you want flowers candy. Dope. Big deal daisey
Sorry gentleman , I am a little late to the conversation. I would just like to add , THE SIX SILENT MEN by Reynel Martinez( sorry I don’t know how to do italics on iPhone ) is a must read .
@Darth Skeletroll 2.0 glad u Luke.
@@amusicalautobiography6629 H Co. Rangers was attached to the 1st Cav. Division not the 101st Air Cav.
@@garylinderer6578 Thank you for that correction! I was writing from memory, and it failed me. :)
this note posted in memory of Lt John Henry Lattin, Class of 1966 Virginia Military Institute, graduated June 1966 killed in action 15 Dec 1967 while on long range recon patrol Republic of South Vietnam. Rest in Peace.
An officer should never have been on a LRRP mission.
@@georgerivera9035 - It certainly was not common for an officer to run a mission, but it did happen occasionally with E/20th - C/75th.
My father noah hall was with Lattin.my father was with173rd then 75th rangers 51st inf. From 67 to 70
I've always loved the idea of sneaking around and avoiding enemy detection.
Happy Veterans Day to All. This is a day for all to remember
Mitch "F" Company 58th Inf. LRP (68-69)
MY father was in at that time and he was a LRRP HE WAS FROM OHIO . REST IN PEACE FATHER.
Eyes of the Eagle
THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE BROTHER. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
Ya know, I really miss my LRRS unit, these guys are my grand daddy's long live these men of true honor
My pop was LURPS 68 to 70 ..God bless.
Do any of you LRRP’s know or remember my uncle Bill “Wilkie” Wilkinson? He was in Charlie Co. He is my best friend, role model, Dad figure, and most of all my Hero! He past away last year from Covid complications. I miss him every second of every day. He followed the Ranger creed until the day he died, and taught me my life lessons growing up. Thank you to all of you for keeping him alive over there so I was able to have someone to look up to!
Have you reached out to the VA or does he have any records of the people he served with? Even if for some reason he cut everyone out of his life from his time in the service, I feel like you could probably start with your local VA. If you have his name, rank, birthdate, dog tags, and other information I can’t imagine it would be too difficult to find out if you put in the effort - unless of course they don’t want to be contacted.
I knew Wilkie. He was a good friend and a brother. I was very sad to hear of his passing. A true warrior.
My Uncle Larry,was MY inspiration to join the United States Army.He was based out of Phu Bai.101st Lima Rangers.And he always told me,about his BUDDY.TROTTER.They served in I Corps.The northern highlands.I believe I met that man in Marietta,Ga.One evening,he told me:"yes,I remember your uncle,tell him ALL THE BATTALIONS are getting a get together down at BENNING.------
Had a Navy friend in the early 80s told me after he went to electronics school in late 60's as a E-4 was sent to Nam and was assigned to place monitoring devices with a squad of Marines. They painted KBC on his jacket. Kill Before Capture. Made him really nervous. No combat training and only a 45.
SSG Lester “Superspade” Hite and SSG Ronald “Brother” Weems were badasses indeed in the book Six Silent Men
You forgot Allen "Lurch" Cornett medic .Book one.
Man I just realized how quietly you'd have to move in that type of environment. Even deer make noise at night. Humans are kind of clumsy by comparison.
Joe Bielesch was in Gary A.
Linderer's Book 3 'Six Silent Men' , Lima Co. 75th INF 101st Screaming Eagle LRP/LRRP
No amount of gratitude can compensate these heros. Brave warriors
Thank you for your service and sacrifice
Knew a guy in LRRPS who worked at Anheuser Busch in Southern California. When he came to training classes, for electrical products at my company he always brought two cases of beer. He told me that at night in the “bush” they would string wire between trees and stand watch behind it so if they fell asleep they would fall onto the wire causing them to wake up.
Respect to the LRRP !
greetings from Danish LRSC
Patruljekompagniet HOK (now: SSR - special support and reconnaissance)
these are some serious bad asses.
John Kiefel is my husband..
Vikki McAllister
I salute him!!! Thank you
Your husband is a bad ass!
Really ??? Is he currently alive today?? Thank him for his services
K boomer
Vikki McAllister A brave man, awesome!!
🍁💀🦇..Wishin there was more..I could listen to this for days.. TRULY FASCINATING..!!!..🍂🎃🕷
Older now.brave six and more god bless you, some don't understand....free world is not free....sacrifice is courage........Jim,carry on brave ones that got it done. Amen.
my uncle was a LRRP and told me of this relatively secret helicopter that was HEAVILY armed and even had a cannon on the side of it. he said they would radio in and say bring this helicopter in(forgot the name) and "make it rain". i thought that was cool and was wondering if anyone heard a similar story.
My best man at my wedding was chinook crew chief, medivac Marine corps. He worked with me 8 yrs on an advanced life support ambulance. He said many times he dropped off a man and a dog. Many he never saw again and some he evac out a 100 miles away months later. 🍺👍🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸
later in the war the lrrp's were used more and more for ambush and they were good hunter killer teams when they had to be. but the main job for a lrrp was recon. the generals wanted a body count and they would use the lrrps to seek out the enemy make contact and try build on that by sending more troops in. they were used as bait. sad but true..
My dad was a 75th Ranger LRRP. JB. Joe Bielesch.
Lucky to have attended SAS International LRRP course, Weingarten FRG. SALUTE to Gary Lindgren,
Your day was my friend. Riley Coz and I attended his funeral in Philly. I remember you, Mike.
@@garylinderer6578 “dozer” I remember Riley. I remember going to a Vietnam reunion with my dad, think it was in Georgia.
I was a LRRP 1973!
My father was also 67-69. Certified serious bada++es.
Thanks for your service and everything you did.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE! My best friend, Royce Clark (Co H, 75th Reg, 101st Air Calvary), was badly wounded when his team was ambushed during the Cambodian invasion in 1970. You can read about his miraculous rescue in "LRRPS IN CAMBODIA: MIA Rescue" by Kregg P. Jorgenson (available on Amazon) … not promoting the book … just giving credit to where credit is due! Thank you all servicemen for going in my place!!
a ranger ?
dont know who my dad was with he was there in 66-67 was a LRRP i know he was a grunt his name is roger burdette he dont talk much about that time of his life but has told me some things about LRRP i thank god for men like him and all the others who fought for my country he and all the others ae my heros
rest in peace Timmy U.s. Army Black Knights B troop infantry L.R.R.P 1969/70
Black Knights Bravo Troop 3/5 Air Cav, 2/75 Rangers 77...a platoon shadow 96B TEAM SPIRIT
Well gotta say first time ive ever heard of LRRRP's unit bein a brit and all but they seem like bad ass mo fo's.Much respect for any man that can do a job like that.
My dad, James Foreman, was LRRP in Vietnam.
"Six Silent Men" its a 3 book series the best I have ever read!!!! The first is writtin by Reynel Martinez The second is written by Ken Miller the third is written by Gary Linderer!!!
Hi, Damian. Try Charlie rangers and SOG if you haven't already. Take care.
Ive read all the LRRP books there are to read some three or four times . Ive tried to put names with the pictures that don't have names . I couldn't find a name for the man on the cover of "The Eyes of The Eagle" by Gary Linderer His eyes tell a story in there own. He looks like the man John Kiefel in this video. I think its the receding hairline. Anyway the LRRPS are all heros in my book. Thanks for making these videos and may God Bless you.
There's one you might have missed. "For A Time We Were Titans" by Thomas Bruce Reed. He is a 2nd BGE 4th ID LRRP out of Pleiku, Kontum and Oasis.
I did this work with 2/503RD Wildcats out of English in the Tiger Mountains in Binh Dinh Province.
Part of the 173rd?
@@sheilahart1267 2/503rd 173rd ABN in Binh Dinh province.
My cousin, Scott Hancock was part of LRRP's.
Wow these guys were great wat balls specially point man my god doesn,t even bare thinkin about wat these men done an went through special breed altogether an nobody gave a shit about dem wen they came home an it wasn,t fair at all wat men wat courage thanks for yer service to all vietnam vets who served over there specially the lrrps great job.
A good friend was one. They all deserve tremendous respect. And their missions were of the highest value. Intel gathering. My friend, long after the war went camping/ hiking with his family. It almost drove him nuts how much noise they made, and evidence they left while going through some trail. lol.
I have all of Gary Linders' books, very good reading. They also had some of the other team members write books which are also good reading.
Linderer is cool.I would like to illustrate a graphic novel based on one of his books!
my father Jesse Norman was a LRRP member he went to Mac V Recondo school
he was in the 1st air cavalry division stationed in An khe
@@ariland14 so was my Dad 1970.
Flowers or candy
Big wipe. Soooooo
I have to say LURP books are some of the best war reads. (And I have a lot of war books from WW2, Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan.) Charlie Rangers for example. Six Silent men series, Blood on the raisers. By far the best is the story of SOG, which is similar in nature.
Not that I like the war or advertise it, but I was a paratrooper myself (trained similar to LURPs) the only volunteer unit in my country and could always relate to camaraderie, managing adverse conditions. Being different from legs (dusters we called them in my language :)).
There was nothing I wouldn't have done for those badges, wings, and berets, when I was a kid and my God, was I dirty, cold, tired. But I was damned If I bitched and whined in front of buddies who were feeling just the same. Training made as a proud bunch.
Father LRRP'd for the 1st I.D. A Team 2nd Squad Trp D (air) 1/4 Cav 10/65-7/67. graduated 3 week course at Nha Trang 11/65 (before it was called recondo... It was still just Project Delta at that time) with 20 others from the unit.
Why haven't they made a Ranger/LRRP movie yet!?!?!?
Mike Hundredson I’ve been asking the same question for years ! I think it would even be good as a band of brothers style mini series.
84 Charlie Mopic is well done
@@freshjes A lot of the original missions into Cambodia were "Top Secret". Maybe they haven't been de-classified yet!
True Detective season 3, the main detective is former LRRP
Read about him in a few books! Your dad was a bad ass! I hope he's still around, and would love it if you passed him a thank you for serving from a big supporter
U.S.A has no idea how great these men are
Did marines collaborate with lrrps?
Linderer's books are awsome. Just in case you want to read some other books about LRPs and LRRPs; read one by John Leppelman and Dennis Foley.
I was born in 1965 but by the time it was 1975 I always wanted to go to Vietnam with my uncles and Cousin. I guess it’s a family thing. May they Rest In Peace
I was a tunnel rat nest 4a2 Binh- Duong
John has a tone of voice that is exactly what is needed
Ran into a guy named Gonzalez some years back at the Palo Alto VA. Nice guy.
ac130 was known as spooky. puff was a C47.we had both used in our support very frequently. i loved lrrps rations.much better than Cs.not lookin for a confrontation.
as a kid jay allen was my babysitter an honuorable man and a lrrp love ya jay
When was this recorded? They are all so young.
Probably the 90s, you have to remember the average age of a soldier in Vietnam was 19.
I was like damn they just got back! Lol
Dad was a Lrrp with the 82nd in 68. Recondo school graduate and team leader, he was a natural born warrior...
Easily one of the most interesting groups
Respect! Brave! Beyond Belief -- 100% causalities. CRAZY !
My name is steve this is my wifes profile. Not 100 casualties. I am here at 72 and still fighting. D co. 4th bat 173 airbborne. Lrrp!
Can anyone associated with this film tell me how to contact Bob Bourdreaux, or where he is?
My question is if a LRRP gets injured. Bobby traps, snake bites. Injuries. Do they scrub the mission and evacuate ?
I was a LRRP TL in the highlands in 69-70. There were differences in how things were done with other units, but K Company 75th Inf Ranger, did pull teams if any one was hurt bad enough to endanger the man or the rest of the team. We operated in 4 man teams for the most part, so any injury was potentially a threat to the mission. It was not uncommon for guys to stay in if the injury was more minor or if extraction involved greater danger. The determining factors for us at least was 1: how long would it take to get to the extraction LZ and 2: how long would it take for the Choppers to get there , once the decision to extract was made.
@@k75romeofive thanks brother. Appreciate that sir
@@k75romeofive
LRRPs are inserted with a number of team in various site,
if a team is down or compromised, they will be evac for opsec sake.
@k75romeofive My old.man was in K Co, 75th 4th division in 68-69. You guys probably chewed the same dirt at some point.
Thank you for serving Soldier.
Very well presented.
Straight up bad ass MoFos!
I think the LRRPs concept became LRS-C /LRS-D in the modern army.
The Marines had Force Recon
It must be like talking about a past life experience, what they were doing in vietnam and how long ago they did it, must seem so strange for them now. Probably better off that way.
Sgt. Duane Allen Jones E-5. Rest in peace Dad. I love you and I will see you soon 🙏❤️
What’s the difference between LRRPs and SOG teams?
USASOG, the 5th Special Forces Group, conducted operations similar to LRRPs operations. They also established very remote bases with locals. They also trained locals to defend their villages, like Montagnards in the mountains, Ruff Puffs= RFPF( Regional Force-Popular Forces, similar to Guard and Reserve in the US) also.
Great forces !!!
Correction; We were an Infantry Platoon consisting of 4 6 man teams. We conducted missions with just six, whereas Rangers would routinely operate in teams of at least 12, plus maybe an E-6, or an officer. I was an AFO, and was part of E/2/503RD Infantry Wildcats. When there was a team out, I was part of the six man team, not 6+me. LRRPs were volunteers with at least 7 months in a line company. We used a 3 day training mission in Indian country to see if they could operate in a LRRP environment.
as old as this video is, this guy doesn't really look old enough to have been over there. I guess he ages well.
All I can say is God Bless and much respect. I do have a question for the individual who posted this video. Were any of the LRRP team made up of Cav Scouts or were they strictly Rangers?
pretty cool dude... one day I might see my bro on one of these war videos... peace
@kaynie143 Yeah, plus North Vietnam had support from China. I didn't mean to suggest the SAS would have fared better in Vietnam, just that these kind of tactics were extremely effective against the communists in Malaya and I'm sure a lot that was learned there would have been passed on to American Special Forces. But I wasn't there so what do I know?
J Hunter
Support from China,that just 15 yrs.earlier we had saved them from forever flying the Land of The Rising Sun flag!!
Lolz to you, slug.
My grandpa was doing this when he lost his leg. God bless you all and God bless the Armed Forces.
It was a real mission in a real hostile environment in the conduct of real patrol and day/night ambush, hunter/killer operations. If you snored, spoke loudly even once, farted loudly, made noise, could not secure your gear, read a map, could not follow orders, instructions, or directions and after a post-mission peer critique, you were either in or out. Most were not selected for the reasons above.
LRRP, that's how you spell hero in my book.
We were not heros. We just survived despite stupid assholes like you.
@@oscarholybeeiii3760 give em a 209
My uncle was a conasueir of mud! It makes noise. Hense the term "hold ur mud"
Not so. We followed orders. There was no complaining except that we had paved the way in blood, and felt we were being cheated out of closing ceremonies. We operated in 6 man teams, Rangers did too sometimes, but they were a company. We were a platoon consisting 2-6 man teams, a platoon Sargent( Pappy Roy Baumgartner), and an AFO each time a team hit the woods. The Rangers had too many men, and we felt they were a little puffed up especially since we had done the worst parts in earlier years.
they were there in vietnam and were in the LRRPS, they know what they were talking about based on the experience
rtfm767, was that the series about the
101st lrrps? if so ur right, those books were great. i read two of them while in iraq.
Gutsy guys. Thank you for your service. If you got a lousy welcome the first time, may you get the welcome you deserve from now on and in Heaven.
These guys were heros!
C Wirleitner hero? We invaded their country under false pretense. We got our butts kicked really hard
@@daffydill5807 No we didn't South Vietnam was a separate separate country that asked for our help in retaining their sovereignty.
he is. and i think hes mentioned in Larry Chambers' too.
I had a high school friend Tony Berreta that was a LRRP, he worked off a LPH, I think.
Sound professional, if all troops were like that the war might've turned out different
I've read Linderer's and Chamber's books. They're really good.
E Co LRRP 52nd / H Co Rangers 75th III Corps 70' & 71.. now I'm just a handicapped combat Veteran (100%'er-combat wounds) lost my only Son in Iraq 08-2004
You gave a lot. I was a grunt in 1971 in a line company as the RTO.
THANK YOU FOR GOING IN MY PLACE! My best friend, Royce Clark (Co H, 75th Reg, 101st Air Calvary), was badly wounded when his team was ambushed during the Cambodian invasion in 1970. You can read about his miraculous rescue in "LRRPS IN CAMBODIA: MIA Rescue" by Kregg P. Jorgenson (available on Amazon) … not promoting the book … just giving credit to where credit is due!
husband john l alaga was 173rd LRRP also with the 75th Rangers wish could find some on you tube who remember John Alaga he is now deceased
Good video, Thanks. Co. E (RANGER) 65th IN, 2nd Plt. 2nd Sqd. 73-79
C"mon no fair....
These guys are hardcore
Company G (Ranger) 75TH INF (ABN) team Alabama here!! Hawk Hill 1970
Same here, LZ Baldy 68-69
@@mgobob are you talking about L Z baldy connected to LZ ross.
@@stevebenson3024 Don't know about LZ Ross, but I was on Baldy (196th headquarters) on mothers day May 12th 1969 when a NVA sapper company tried to over run us. Turned out bad. We lost Sgt. Scott, I was wounded by a frag, but there were lots of dead NVA in our company area the next morning.
@mikeybiel Your Dad J.B. was my first Team Leader.....He loved his M-60
John