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    3rd Ranger Company troops getting ready to patrol the Imjin River, 1951.
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    3rd Ranger company? Looks more like the one is 3rd Div...with a ranger tab...
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    3rd Ranger company? Looks more like the one is 3rd Div...with a ranger tab...
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    Troops of the 3rd Ranger Company adjust their equipment prior to undertaking a dawn patrol across the Imjin River in Korea, April 1951. They are armed with an m1918A2 BAR, M1rifles, and M2 carbines. The Ranger on the extreme right has two M15 white phosphorus grenades. Their insignia is the RANGER-AIRBORNE DOUBLE TAB OVER A 3RD inf Div. patch. The small “goldenlite” rank stripes can also be seen.

    The 3rd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was a Ranger light infantry company of the United Statesicon Army active during the Korean War. As a small special forces unit, it specialized in irregular warfare.

    Formed in the fall of 1950, the 3rd Ranger Company was used for several months as a cadre of training staff for the Ranger Training Center at Fort Benning, Georgia. The company deployed to South Korea in March 1951 and was assigned to the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division for four months, where it was used as a reconnaissance and scouting unit, probing North Korean People's Volunteer Army positions. The company is known for its "Battle of Bloody Ridge" on 11 April where it stumbled into a Chinese ambush on its first mission, but was able to push the opposing force back. The company later supported the 3rd Infantry Division at the Battle of the Imjin River.

    Later in the summer, the company was used as a stealth "target acquisition" force, infiltrating Chinese positions and spotting concentrations of troops and equipment for artillery attack. The company was deactivated on 1 August 1951, and was merged with the U.S. 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team alongside all other Ranger units
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    I question whether they probed "North Korean People's Volunteer Army positions," because by that time the NKs were about wiped out, it was practically all Chinese. BTW, at my urging my wife is currently reading "This Kind of War" by Fehrenbach, one of the best on the Korean War.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark in Rochester View Post
    was assigned to the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division for four months
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