Rangers #3

5307th Composite Unit-Provisional (Merrill's Marauders)-Variation
Worn from: October 1943-10 August 1944. Approved for local wear only.

5307th Composite Unit-Provisional (Merrill's Marauders)
Worn from: October 1943-10 August 1944. Approved for local wear only.

Ranger Battalion
Worn from: 19 June 1943-8 July 1946.
Originally worn by the Second and Fifth Battalions before they changed to the scroll design.

Ranger Tab
June 1942-October 1945 (Unauthorized).

Seventy-fifth Ranger Regiment (Merrill's Marauders)
Organized 1 January 1969 and worn from that date as the Seventy-fifth Infantry Regiment until 14 August 1986.
Reorganized 1 July 1984 as the Seventy-fifth Infantry (Ranger) Regiment and worn from 14 August 1986-Current.

 



Effective on 3 February 1986, all ranger battalions were consolidated and redesignated as the Seventy-fifth Ranger Regiment. The new insignia was a scroll with the inscription (left)"75 Ranger Infantry," which was reinscribed "75 Ranger Regiment." (above left) The redesignation was effective 14 February 1986. Prior to the approval of the First Battalion scroll and the Second Battalion scroll, those units wore scrolls with the inscription "1st and 2d Battalion Ranger Airborne 75th Infantry," which were unauthorized.

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