Korean War Ranger Companies

Headed by Second Lieutenant Ralph Puckett, the Eighth Army Ranger Company was created in August 1950.

In addition to the special skills and techniques used by their forebears, the Ranger Infantry Companies added airborne assault to their repertoire.

[3] The Army Chief of Staff assigned the Ranger training program at Fort Benning to Colonel John Gibson Van Houten.

During the course of the war, the Rangers patrolled and probed, scouted and destroyed, attacked and ambushed the Communist Chinese and Korean enemy.

The 2nd and 4th Rangers made a combat airborne assault near Munsan where Life Magazine reported that Allied troops were now patrolling north of the 38th Parallel.