THE RANGER CREED

Recognizing that I volunteered as a Ranger, fully knowing the hazards of my chosen profession, I will always endeavor to uphold the prestige, honor, and "esprit de corps" of the Ranger Regiment.

Acknowledging the fact that a Ranger is a more elite soldier who arrives at the cutting edge of battle by land, sea, or air, I accept the fact that as a Ranger my country expects me to move farther, faster and fight harder than any other soldier.

Never shall I fail my comrades. I will always keep myself mentally alert, physically strong and morally straight and I will shoulder more than my share of the task whatever it may be. One hundred percent and then some.

Gallantly will I show the world that I am a specially selected and well trained soldier. My courtesy to superior officers, my neatness of dress and care for equipment shall set the example for others to follow.

Energetically will I meet the enemies of my country. I shall defeat them on the field of battle for I am better trained and will fight with all my might. Surrender is not a Ranger word. I will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy and under no circumstances will I ever embarrass my country.

Readily will I display the intestinal fortitude required to fight on to the Ranger objective and complete the mission, though I be the lone survivor.

 The Hanoi Taxi (tail #66-0177) was retired from active service in May
 2006. She was the last of the 285 C-141s built by Lockheed to leave
 active service. She flew 100 POWs out of Hanoi on 12 February 1973, some
 of them tasting freedom for the first time in six years. Each POW put
 their shot-down date on the face of the oxygen panel during their flight

75^th Rangers

      Like the Marauders and the 475th Infantry Regiment in W.W. II, albeit in much smaller teams, these Ranger and predecessor LRRP/LRP units had the mission of working deep within an enemy's areas of operation. The tenacity and excellence of the Ranger tradition was clearly demonstrated by the heroism of these volunteers. A total of four Medals of Honor were bestowed (three posthumously) on men who had fought in these units.

Unit Histories

Ranger AndY`s

We are very sad to have to report the news that

Dave Cline died this past weekend.

There are many wonderful tributes to Dave being written <http://www.veteransforpeace.org/>, and we would like to add some personal reflections on the part of his life with which we were all deeply connected - the GI Movement against the Vietnam War.

WE hope you will indulge some nostalgic reminiscing here!

- there really is a point to it.

This is the story of one of the most vibrant and widespread upheavals of the 1960's–one that had profound impact on American society, yet has been virtually obliterated from the collective memory of that time.

Jane Fonda and Michael Alaimo performing with The FTA Show, 1971.

In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases.

It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point.

And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it.  Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile.  And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.

Sir! No Sir!

A Film About The Gi Movement Against

The War In Vietnam.

1971 Armed Farces Day demonstration of 1,500 GIs from Ft. Hood. Holding megaphone is David Zeiger.

The Vietnam War has been the subject of hundreds of films, both fiction and non-fiction, but this story–the story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war–has never been told in film. This is certainly not for lack of evidence.

GI Rebels

By the Pentagon’s own figures, 503,926 “incidents of desertion” occurred between 1966 and 1971; officers were being “fragged”(killed with fragmentation grenades by their own troops) at an alarming rate; and by 1971 entire units were refusing to go into battle in unprecedented numbers.

In the course of a few short years, over 100 underground newspapers were published by soldiers around the world; local and national antiwar GI organizations were joined by thousands; thousands more demonstrated against the war at every major base in the world in 1970 and 1971, including in Vietnam itself; stockades and federal prisons were filling up with soldiers jailed for their opposition to the war and the military.

The Presidio 27--Sit-down strike of 27 GIs in the Presidio Army Stockade, 1968.

Yet few today know of these history-changing events.

Sir! No Sir! will change all that. The film does four things:

1) Brings to life the history of the GI movement through the stories of those who were part of it;

 2) Reveals the explosion of defiance that the movement gave birth to with never-before-seen archival material;

3) Explores the profound impact that movement had on the military and the war itself;

 4) The feature, 90 minute version, also tells the story of how and why the GI Movement has been erased from the public memory.

This spring, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) is revealing the reality of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. In what will be history's largest gathering of U.S. veterans who`ve served in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as Iraqi and Afghan survivors. Eyewitnesses will share these experiences in a public investigation called …

Winter Soldier:

                             Iraq and Afghanistan.

                             From Old Bunker`s To New...

GGGG et   Ready for the Practice "P L F`s".

The Last Practice...

Camp Ederle, Vicenza Italy

Southern European Task Force.

{ Our Special Thanks  to Jason Maynard from My Home Town of

Swanzey New Hampshire for his contribution of these photographs! }

Next Dr0p...   B00t`s in The Desert!

     Col. Bill Mayville, lower right, the commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, on a C-17 transport plane with his troops Wednesday at Aviano Air Base. The 173rd, which hasn't participated in a combat jump since the Vietnam War, had 1,000 soldiers parachute into northern Iraq. Mayville was set to be the first one off the first plane.

       More than a dozen C-17 transport planes parked nose-to-tail on the taxiway at Aviano Air Base, Italy, made more than a few heads turn. The sight got even more impressive when the camouflaged 173rd Airborne Brigade marched out to await passage to Iraq.

A New mission for the

Newly Activated 173rd Airborne Brigade

             out of Italy this week. Legs ain't doing so well  this week,

so of course they are calling on the

"Best of the Rest".

                                                                Kent Harris / S&S

            ARLINGTON, Va. — It was history in the making, and literally brought tears to Lt. Col. Bob Allardice’s eyes, an Air Force C-17 pilot who aided in the Wednesday delivery of about 1,000 soldiers to Iraq’s northern front.

Black Hawk Down.

"Blackhawk Down.

" He and the Pakistanis performed a search and recovery mission later that afternoon.

~The Fighting Tigers~

                  John Dreska of the DSCC Directorate of Corporate Information was in combat in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Oct. 3, 1993, as a lieutenant and platoon leader in the U.S. Army's 79th Quartermaster Detachment of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).

         "During the liftoff, I noticed a large dust cloud to the west across the city. 'Little Birds' were crisscrossing the sky above the area and firing into multiple targets on the ground. That's when my helicopter pilot confirmed a Blackhawk helicopter had gone down in the area of the dust cloud. We now know that was 'Super Six One,' the helicopter that went down in the movie," said Dreska.

Ever wonder Why we were sent To Vietnam?

Black Gold Hot Gold 

          1945, at the end of WWII, when the Japanese surrendered, General Douglas MacArthur became the military Governor of Japan. MacArthur's assistant was Laurence Rockefeller, one of John D's four grandsons. Just before the Japanese surrendered, the US had been preparing for a massive invasion of the Japanese home islands and had stockpiled vast supplies of weapons and munitions on the island of Okinawa. Enough weaponry to invade Japan. What ever happened to all those military supplies?

With Vice-Governer Laurence Rockefeller`s assistance most of them were sold to the leader of VietnamHo Chi Minh, for something like one US dollar and Ho’s "goodwill." Why would Laurence do that? That was US taxpayer property. Ho Chi Minh had been an ally to help fight the Japanese during the war. But the Chinese had been an even greater ally, so why didn’t the weapons go to China? Those weapons might have prevented Mao Tse Tung from taking over China just four years later if they had been given to China. But that wasn’t the plan. From where did Mao get his weapons?

     In the 1920's an insider secret became known to a few people. It was published in an exhaustive world resources survey book written by a renowned world-traveling geologist named Hoover, who later became a US President. Not many copies were printed and few people read the book. The secret was that one of the world's largest potential oil fields ran along the coast of the South China Sea right off French Indo-China, now known as Viet Nam. But in the 1920's the method of deep sea oil drilling had not yet been developed. In 1945, the French still held small oil-poor Viet Nam as a colony. Laurence knew about Hoover’s book and the off shore oilfields. The French could be driven out if the Vietnamese nationals, lead by Ho Chi Minh, could be supplied with weapons. Did the French know about this?

     Laurence Rockefeller thought he could trick Ho Chi Minh by offering him the weapons to drive out the French and then in return Standard would take over the as yet undeveloped offshore fields. But in 1954 when Vietnamese General Giap finally defeated and drove out the French at Dien Bien Phu, Ho reneged on the deal. Since by then, everybody including the French, the Vietnamese, the Japanese and the Chinese had all read the same Hoover resource book and knew there was a vast supply of oil off the Vietnamese coast. Many people have wondered why the French have been so recalcitrant toward the US ever since French President Charles DeGaul wanted to pull out of NATO in the mid-1950's.

     Ho Chi Minh would not let Standard Oil simply walk in and walk off with all the Vietnamese oil. So as before, any country which owns the oil is branded as "communist" since they hold the oil as "community property" and won't allow private corporations, like Standard, to develop the fields and steal the oil. In this case, young American's themselves where "hired" directly to be the "fascists" to go fight the Vietnamese "communists."

     The whole 20 year Viet Nam “war” from 1955 to 1975 was an oil scam. And all during the "war," Vietnamese General Giap fought the Americans with weapons he got from Laurence for a dollar. Did you ever wonder why the US, despite, greatly superior weapons, and the loss of 57,000 Americans and half a million Vietnamese, never won the "war?" Ever wonder why the US President issued such strange “rules of engagement” for the American troops that made sure they didn’t win? Ever wonder why Henry Kissinger, a personal assistant to Nelson Rockefeller spent so much time in the Viet Nam/Paris Peace talks which never went anywhere but simply dragged on for years. Maybe winning the “war” wasn’t part of the plan of the Empire of Energy. Maybe the timing of the “war” was more important.

     In the 1950's a method of undersea oil exploration was perfected which used small explosions deep in the water and then recorded the sound echos bouncing off the various layers of rock below. The surveyor could then determine the exact location of the arched salt domes which hold the accumulated oil beneath them. But if this method were used off the Viet Nam coast on property Standard didn't own or have the rights to, the Vietnamese, the Chinese, the Japanese and probably even the French would quickly run to the United Nations and complain that America was stealing the oil, and that would shut down the operation.

The "SECRET" to Veterans Rights

Many Veterans send us e-mails describing how the Department of Veterans Affairs has "Sat" on there claim for years, or wrongly denied them benefits. Others send us e-mails about how the retirement they earned was stolen from them because they became disabled. Still more tell about how their right to seek redress with a Tort Claim for wrongs has been taken from them to punish them for serving our country, and providing the very Freedom we live under. All these Veterans being wronged have one thing in common.

A Promise Made to them by America has been broken!

There is a "Secret" as to how to correct this injustice and get the Rights we are entitled to, as Veterans. To get America to keep her promise to the Veterans, and Retired Military that served her. That is to UNITE and fight with ALL OTHER VETERANS as to

ALL THE OTHER VETERANS ISSUES!