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Members of the 2nd Ranger Company (Airborne) aboard ship en route to Korea in 1950. First lieutenant Warren E. Allen, Company commander, is standing second from right. The 2D Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all- black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army.…

2nd Ranger Company was held in reserve, its personnel were gradually reassigned. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 8th Ranger Companies were to be inactivated by the commanding generals of the divisions to which the rangers were attached. 1 August 1951. 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) unit was officially inactivated.…

Airborne Ranger Infantry Company Scroll Ranger Tab. A fter intense weeks of training at Fort Benning, Georgia, the Army’s four newly created Ranger Infantry companies parted ways after their December 1950 graduation. While the 1st Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was rushed to Korea by air, the 2nd and 4th Ranger Companies were shipped by train to San Francisco for a slower journey to war.…

Synopsis. The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. Its 10-month lifespan included selection, training, and seven months of combat deployment in Korea, after which the unit was deactivated.…

The 2nd Ranger Company, like the 187th “Rakkasans”, had jumped with “horseshoe bedrolls”—a GI wool blanket and poncho wrapped in half of a canvas “pup tent” (shelter half)—typical of the adage, “Travel light, freeze at night,” because temperatures in that region still dropped below freezing in late March.…

At the outbreak of war in Korea, a unique Ranger unit was formed.Headed by Second Lieutenant Ralph Puckett, the Eighth Army Ranger Company was created in August 1950. It would serve as the role model for the rest of the Ranger units to be formed. Instead of being organized into self-contained battalions, the Ranger units of the Korean and Vietnam eras would be organized into companies and then ...…

Jul 01, 2014 · Four members of the elite, segregated outfit -- the 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) -- were guests of Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond ……

Oct 26, 2014 · Comments: I am the National Historian for the 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) Assn. anyone looking for information on the 2nd Ranger Company (Airborne), please feel free to contact me, 2nd Ranger Company (Airborne) was America's only all black Ranger Company.…

Feb 02, 2014 · The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was a Ranger light infantry company of the United States Army active during the Korean War. As a small special operations unit, it specialized in irregular warfare. A segregated unit, all of its personnel, including its officers, were African-Americans.…