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Posted: 05/31/2020 Name: Tom Wilburn Message: I am in need of any contact information for CSM (RET) Mike Martin of Tullahoma, Tennessee. Any info, e-mail, phone, address, would be helpful.l Thanks, Tom |
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Posted: 05/29/2020 Name: James ( Jim ) Regan Message: R.I.P. Ranger Doug Perry. Jim RLTW/L&P |
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Posted: 05/28/2020 Name: Bob Williams Message: Doug's service will be at Anderson Davenport funeral home in Dahlonega. Viewing tomorrow (Friday) from 5-8 pm. Service at the Funeral Home 1 pm on Saturday, then to Camp Merrill for graveside. |
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Posted: 05/27/2020 Name: Bob Suchke Message: RANGER DOUGLAS M. PERRY will be sorely missed. He was an icon and a legend in the Ranger Community. Doug, we will see you on the high ground! Ranger Doug Perry was born on 8 June 1941 in the Mill Creek community located in northern Georgia. In March 1959, Ranger Perry enlisted in the U.S. Army; after Basic Training and Advanced Infantry Training, he was assigned to the 24th Infantry Division in Germany, where he would spend two years as a rifleman and Fire Team Leader honing his Infantry techniques and leadership in demanding field exercises. In 1961, he was reassigned to the 2nd Ranger Company, Mountain Ranger Camp, Dahlonega, Georgia, where he made the grade of NCO. He attended the U.S. Army Ranger School, Class 6-62 and was designated Enlisted Honor Graduate. After Ranger School, he attended the Jungle Warfare School in the Panama Canal Zone. For twenty years, Ranger Perry's Army assignments would encompass all aspects of an Infantryman, Paratrooper, and an Army Ranger throughout the world, including nine years as a Ranger Instructor and tours in South Vietnam as a combat Ranger. Sergeant Perry's technical competence in many diverse skills, such as Airborne/Airmobile operations, demolitions, weaponry, patrolling and mountaineering was invaluable to the Mountain Ranger Committee and to the thousands of students that he taught. He made numerous significant and lasting contributions to the upgrading of the Ranger Course. Due to his experience and expertise, Perry was assigned to the 7th Infantry Division's Counter-Guerilla Warfare School in Korea. The school's mission was to teach and train the Division's rifle companies in Ranger techniques and counter insurgency, also, small unit leadership. This was of dire importance because of continuous altercations in the DMZ by the North Koreans in the form of ambushes and attempted infiltrations. Many of the Soldiers he trained would use their acquired knowledge in future assignments in South Vietnam. 1966, Ranger Perry deployed to Vietnam as a U.S. Army Ranger Advisor to the South Vietnamese Ranger units. He served back to back tours with two of the most decorated combat units in Vietnam, the 42nd and 44th Vietnamese Ranger Battalions: the 44th was the first unit – American or Vietnamese – to be awarded the Presidential Unit Citation. The 42nd received the Presidential Unit Citation twice. Ranger Perry was assigned to the U.S. Army Alaska Command in 1970, as a Platoon Sergeant and the acting First Sergeant of Company C ABN, 6th Battalion, 9th Infantry. This company had the distinction of being the "Most Northern Airborne Unit" in the U.S. Army. The unit conducted Airborne and field operations in extreme Arctic temperatures as much as fifty degrees below zero in harsh weather conditions. Ranger Perry's last assignment was with the 14th Company TSB, Fort Benning, Georgia. He was the First Sergeant of the 400 member unit until his retirement in 1979. Ranger Perry's military qualifications and awards include the Combat Infantryman Badge, Expert Infantryman Badge, Ranger Tab, Master Parachutist Badge, Canadian Parachutists Badge, Vietnamese Ranger Badge, the Bronze Star Medal, and the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry w/ Palm. He was inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame in 2008. RLTW! |
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Posted: 05/27/2020 Name: Bob Williams Message: With deep remorse I must announce yet another great Ranger has passed. Doug Perry move to his final patrol base earlier today. Arrangements will be posted once received. |
