36th Airborne Brigade (United States)

[2] A 36th Brigade of infantry was originally part of the National Army 18th Division, formed briefly in 1917–18.

Two Airborne infantry battalions previously assigned to the 71st were retained, and the HQ 36th Airborne Brigade was activated as a TDA unit to provide administrative command and control over the two battalions.

[6] The company was based on the LRRP model of the Vietnam War years and later replaced "Ranger" with "Long Range Surveillance" when the Army adopted the new LRS designation.

[7][8][9] Under the 71st and 36th, unit soldiers has worn a blue Airborne tab, but this was replaced with a G co Ranger Scroll in G-143d while it was a Ranger Company, and later returned to a blue Airborne tab when it was a LRS company.

By September 1990 it was inactivated, along with all other National Guard and Army Reserve pathfinder units.