LRRP Related Info on Centaur Website
Here are many of our Links to our Long Range Recon Patrol Platoon
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Mark Ponzillo
My Page · Info Sheet Obit · Photo Album · The Centaur LRRP Story Video · LRRP Story Text · You Bet Your Life · The Snake · Tribute to Mike Squires.
Cobra LRRP Rescue - 21 Feb 1970
The LRRPs were hunkered down in a depression behind a large rounded boulder — we came in and put the front of the skids on the boulder mostly hovering. Jake got ...
LRRP Story Herbert Beasley
LRRP insertions were always done at twilight giving the LRRP Team the cover of darkness. On December 7, 1966 the crew of aircraft # 65-9661, which flew most ..
TLN LRRP Action Traxler and Squires
Routine patrol by members of the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP), 3rd Sqd, 4th Cav, resulted in the death of four Viet Cong and the second award of ...
WarStory 80 percent Marcinkowski
Between June 1st and the end of November 1966 the 25th Infantry Division LRRP Company (Provisional) acquired a lot of special communications equipment, uniforms ...
TLN Men Needed For 25th's LRRP Det
Two armor or infantry lieutenants are needed to be LRRP leaders. They must have at least one month of combat experience and seven months remaining on their ...
TLN Join LRRP
You will become a member of the elite Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol, better known as LRRP. LRRP is now looking for men who would like to join the team.
LRRP Rescue War Zone C - May 67
The LRRP team was being hotly pursued as they raced toward the same location they landed at. The entire troop came airborne and was orbiting just east of the ...
LRRP Insertion
The moment of insertion lay between dusk and dark. Inbound CPT Gary Hatfield is sandwiched wrapped in his chest protector, securely strapped into his armored ...
Scrounging by Gene Tucker
The enterprising young soldiers of the 25th Infantry Division (LRRP) began to requisition and acquire equipment. Let us begin with the 10 position (Switch) ..
TLN Join LRRP
The Ranger Team was on a reconnaissance mission when it came under intense enemy fire. Stuckey was in the front of the formation and with complete disregard for ...
Stable Boy Rescues LRRPs - Tom Fleming
The first LRRP mission I participated in was a no-contact insertion and extraction with MAJ Richard Thomas as the Aircraft Commander and I as the Pilot.
Michelin Pool
The LRRP assigned with the D Troop Centaurs had a huge mission area within and, at times, beyond the 25th Infantry Division (ID) area of operation (AO).
Extactions-r-us
Specially trained soldiers, Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) teams, are inserted by helicopter into enemy territory in a covert manner.
Gary Hatfield LRRP Extraction 1 Feb 1967
CPT Gary Hatfield tells of the 1 Feb 1967 Emergency LRRP Extraction. 3:36 min. intro · cav · centaur. Reunions. Home · irosterInfo · society · memoriam ...
The Way It Was - 1967 - Fleming
Gen. Fred C. Weyand calls the 25th Inf. Div. Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP), and that's what he called decorated the men of two patrols ..
WarStory You Bet Your Life - Gene Tucker
“You Bet Your Life” -1966. By Eugene G. Tucker. I was not a member of Project Delta but was trained by Delta in 1966 as a 25th Infantry Division LRRP.
WarStories KIA Medevac
SFC Kelly the LRRP Medic who always flew with me hopped out and started a low crawl toward a M113 PC nearby (30 Meters) that was furiously firing his ...
WarStoriesInfo
The LRRP Company was forming in the fall of 1967 after expanding from a LRRP Detachment that had been attached to D troop. In the fall of 1967 the LRRP ...
Cambodian Sunset
The missions were long range reconnaissance patrols (LRRP) in the border area of the Parrot's Beak. ... LRRP focused their information gathering on the area.
Mission at Dau Tieng - Jan 68
The LRRP team was provided with light scout cover overhead, less than one minute away from their location and the Aero Rifle Platoon was airborne ready to .
InfoHuckaby
Why I became a LRRP: Huckaby As an 05B Radio Operator with the 65th Engr BN, that was the MOS for a TC in the flamethrower platoon. All well and good until ...
Articles Thomas E. Fleming
A description of a LRRP mission out of Dau Tieng in which a newly assigned Team Leader with a barely trained team made a mistake and compromised his mission.
Battle for Saigon Book Input
D Troop trained the LRRPs in insertion and extraction by air which was their principal method of employment. In most cases the LRRP Teams were under the ...
A Skilled Hard Landing
A LRRP SGT was on board having done the reconnoitering and we were flying low level and fast. I can't recall the names of the Aircraft Commander and Pilot or ...
Help You
LRRPs- referred to the freeze dried rations that LRRP patrols were issued. They were light-weight and when mixed with hot water were very tasty. . LSA - LSA has ...
WarStoriesInfo
Anderson said he wanted me to join his crew, to be his gunner for a big long-range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP)mission that was coming up soon. He ...
Gerald D. Traxler
The Centaur LRRP Story Video · LRRP Story Text · You Bet Your Life · LRRP Action · Communist Flag
We would be the reactionary force for the LRRPs (pronounced “lurps”) – Long Range Recon Patrols – and if they got into trouble, we would go in and rescue them.
Battle of the Renegade Woods 2 April 1970
Battle of the Renegade Woods 2 April 1970 Jim Tonelli, Philip Tocco, Phillip Norton (LRRP), Collin Hall, (LRRP), Fred Stuckey (LRRP), Richard Adams, Charles ..
Cobra 23 LRRP Team Rescue 2 Jul 68
LRRP team (Cobra 23) trapped on the East side of Nui Ba Den mountain by LOH pilot Centaur 14 (WO1 Steve Patterson). There are two parts to the audio: Home ..
WarStory Same Place Glen Gouge
I don't know if he was at the An Duc extraction but I think he probably got shot at several times and maybe shot down once doing night LRRP extractions.
Info Irvin K. Herrmann
Marshall Huckaby: Irvin K. Herrmann was assigned to the LRRPs when I got there in April 66. I was 22 and as I think about it he was a more “seasoned” NCO!
CIVO Monthly Newsletter, Vietnam War, Air Cavalry ...
Hugh Mack Howerton, SGT LRRP 1966-67, age 70, passed away Saturday, June 16, 2007. Graveside service was June 26 2007, in Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.
Go Dau Ha
In Jun 67 D Troop established a LRRP support base there; a maintenance section and support helicopters. The Suicide war story occurred there. In the village ...
Info Warren Nycum
Warren was a U.S. Army Green Beret Veteran serving in Bayroid Germany, US Missile Nike Hercules Batt. In 1967; F Co. 75th Inf Ranger LRRP 25th, Inf Cu Chi ...
Info Richard Benner
I was a SSG at that time and served as a Team Ldr of a LRRP Team. I am trying to confirm the name of the rescued pilot of the LOH shot down in Cambodia and ...
Info Alvin Winslow Floyd
John "DJ" Krone: Apr 2, 2007 - SFC Floyd was, my 1SG. I'll Never Forget about mid-April, 1969, SFC Floyd came to my LZ and asked for LRRP volunteers and he ...
Cu Chi 1966
Marshall Huckaby - LRRP. Marshall gives us a clear description of how the Cu Chi base camp began, how it continued through the war and how it ended. I don't ...
Jim Filiatreault at San Antonio Reunion
Jim Filiatreault tells of a hair raising night LRRP extraction. 3:20 min. BigWindow. Also see: Iron Triangle LRP Rescue.
Info Sheet - SSG Patrick L. "Pat" Lacy
... (LRRP) Vietnam. May 1967 to Aug 1967 — C 6, 1/327th Inf, 101st Abn Div, Vietnam. Jan 1968 to Sep 1969 — Infantry School, Fort Benning, GA (Instructor). Jan 1970 ...
CIVO Monthly Newsletter, Vietnam War, Air Cavalry ...
Dec 5, 2024 — Ronald "Ron" Harrison LRRP 1970 to 1971 now has a draft Centaur Friends MyPage. Ron attended the Centaur Vets Reunion in Panama City Beach ..
Info Robert L. Webster
I know my father would want his brethren to know. Newsletter Entry Jan 2023: John Webster, son of Robert L. Webster Jr Centaur LRRP (Jul 1966-April 67) writes ...
Dutchey Lane
My Page · Info Sheet · LRRP Ambush 1966.
J. L. Walters
My Page · Info Sheet · LRRP Rescue · Cambodia CrashRescue 10 May 1970.
Gary Hatfield
2022 Reunion LRRP Feb 67 Extraction · 2022 Reunion Tribute to Mike Squires · 2022 Reunion Trip on USS Gordon · Opn Gadsden · Cambodian Sunset · LRRP Dec 66 ...
Info Hugh Mack Howerton
Died 16 June 2007. Hugh Mack Howerton, SGT LRRP 1966-67, age 70, passed away Saturday, June 16, 2007. Graveside service was Tuesday, June 26 2007, ..
Slides Frank Delvy
Traxler (LRRP), MAJ Oscar Thoreson Standing: CPT Tony Robinson, CPT Frank Delvy In back: CPT Joe Lacy. FD-09 - Delvy and Mark Ponzillo. FD-10. FD-11. FD-12. FD ...
Ervin Laird
My Page · Info Sheet · 1 Feb 1967 LRRP Extraction · Two Down · Together ...
Jerry D. Spicer
InfoSheet/Obit · The Centaur LRRP Story · Communist Flag.
Samuel B Wright
My Page · LRRP Ambush 1966 · intro · news · dvd. Rosters. Home · irosterInfo · society · memoriam · reunion · history · timeline · society ...
Donald C. Moore
My Page · 2022 Reunion Hatfield LRRP Extraction · Opn Gadsden.
Dennis W. Noga
My Page · LRRP Extraction 1 Feb 1967 · Opn Gadsden · Pat Lacy Slide ...
Great XO Moose
I remember my next unrequested visit was being told to report to Moose's office just as I had landed from a LRRP mission. Without any discussion he told me ...
WarStory Down in War Zone C
We all must have been on a LRRP mission. The A/C was the same pilot that rolled over a C model hovering downwind from south POL (I seem to remember). DwnWZC3.
Richard "Rick" Ellison
My Page · InfoSheet · LRRP Ambush 1966.
Two Crazy Bastards Up Front - Mike Vaughn
What the Hell? Oh, those Two Crazy Bastards Up Front have volunteered our crew for a LRRP extraction. You know as I think about it, it was ALWAYS those ...
2024 Reunion video Tim Walsh
Introduction by Tim Walsh, LRRP, at the 2024 Centaur Vets Reunion. 2 min 22 sec. intro · cav · centaur
Michael R. Banks
MyPage · IntroVideo · SlicksVideo · Crewmember Video · Ft Wolters · Brothers Lament · LRRP War Zone C.
Info Willard Robert "Bobby" Etheridge
He served his country from May '67 to March '69 as an Airborne Ranger with a tour in Vietnam as a Squad Leader, Long Range Recon Patrol LRRP, 4th Calvary, 25h ...
Reggie Slater First Casuality SGT Fred Stuckey (1968-70) LRRP talks about the Centaur Helicopter support. 1:50 min.
Lewis Barger
My Page · Slide Show · Poncho Villa · Reunion 2008 PhotoAlbum · Reunion 2022 Hatfield Video Feb 67 LRRP Extraction.
Combat Radio Usage
.. LRRP/ etc. One anomaly in the previous 1968 period was the Lt Scout OH-23Gs. They communicated on FM between each other because their only other radio was ...
Peterson
My Page · InfoSheet/Obit · Nashville · Cockpit Majors · D Troop Redefined · Squires · Extractions R Us · Stuck · Cambodian Sunset · The Centaur LRRP Story.
Gary Hatfield
My Page · Opn Gadsden · 2022 Reunion LRRP Feb 67 Extraction
Info Sheet - Adrian Sipple
They usually dropped the LRRP patrols off with empty ships doing the fake drops. Our ship was usually first in and last out of the LZ. Sure fun flying in ...
Rat Pack Shoots 494
D-Troop was called for a night extraction of a LRRP team somewhere North of TayNinh (?). The Gun Cover was the “Rat Pack” (187th Assault Helicopter Company) ...
WarStory Events of January 29, 1969
... LRRP team in trouble. I grabbed my camera and field gear and headed to the flight line with the thought of joining up with them. I asked one of the guys ..
My Page · Slideshow · My Bio · Reunion Video 2016 · War Story · LRRP Story · Red Ants · 1966 Storm · Extractions R Us.
Info Sheet on William D. "Bill" Brantley
Jan 31, 2015 — ... (LRRP), 25th Infantry Division, stationed in South Vietnam between August 1966 and June 1967. Sergeant Brantley completed his service in ...
Info Obituary John U. Elliott
... LRRP ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… John Elliott, 65, longtime Hereford resident died Thursday, October 23, 2008 at the Thomas E. Creek Veteran ...
WarStoriesAudio
Anyway, most of the guys out of the hooch here have gone up on a LRRP drop, and the other two people that fly light scouts are out on missions. Oh, boy ...
Info Sheet - James Eldon Moore
The 'Blue Team' was the ready action force for the F Company Ranger LRRP insertion and extractions. 1LT Moore was an aggressive and professional officer who ...
PhotoAlbums
Peterson, Craig, D · 1968-69, 32 photos of his D Troop Tour in Photo Album ; Ponzillo, Mark, D · 1966, LRRP's and LRRP Training. 5 Photos ; Powell,Bruce - 3rd CAB & ..
Info Gerald L. "Jerry" Wright
Some notable events; extraction under fire of a LRRP Team (only 4 of the 5 came out), NW of Tay Ninh, middle of the night mission to help and Infantry ...
Prek Klok
Tom Fleming: A LRRP team that was compromised in War Zone C NE of Tay Ninh and SE of the SF Camp at Prek Klok in Dec 1967. On that mission the LRRP team had ..
WarStory Edwarto Flores Tragedy
He was a D Trooper and had been extracted from a LRRP or Aero Rifle team and these individuals were just riding on various vehicles to be taken back in.. We ...
AudioFleming8tapes
TAPE 2. Service Platoon: Early Summer 1967 (Monsoon Season) Troop area conditions & challenges when afloat. Support of LRRP & Squadron operations. Use of 3 ...
Fred Stuckey at San Antonio Reunion
Fred Stuckey LRRP, talks of the Centaur aviation support of his unit. 1:51 min. BigWindow. Also see: Renegade Woods Battle 2 Apr 1970. Jim Tonelli.
Info Bud Wayne Wyatt
He was buried in Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery. Joe Hoover: Bud and I were talking and I was asking him about being in the Rangers (LRRP's), what ..
Help Answers
Any LRRP's (Long Range Recon Patrol) assigned before 12/20/1967 to the 25th Inf Div, is considered a "Centaur LRRP". Co F, 50th Inf was activated on 20 Dec 67 ...
IVO Monthly Newsletter, Vietnam War, Air Cavalry ...
John Alfred Ray Olson SP4 LRRP with D Troop, tour dates unknown, died 17 April 2017 at the age of 79. We have a draft deceased MyPage for him with InfoSheet ...
Info Obit Myron "Mike" Squires
LRRP infiltration I never worried about getting back to Base Camp alive. We had the Best Pilots in TRP D (AIR) 3RD SQDN 4TH CAV 25TH INFANTRY DIVISION and ...
Door Gunners
There were times when I did use it during some LRRP extractions; especially when they were using their Stabo Rig , or when we were Sling loading or dropping ...
Comunist Flag by Gene Tucker
We did not have team numbers; the LRRP Detachment was so new. Our team which consisted of myself Gene Tucker (SGT) Assistant Patrol Leader, Hugh Howerton ...
Gene Tucker at San Antonio Reunion
Gene Tucker (1966) one of the original Centaur LRRP's. 5:33 min. BigWindow.
Slides Lewis Barger
LB - 77 LRRP's coming in from a tough surveillance mission. LB - 78 Flying is good, crawling in the rice patties and jungles is baaddd. LB - 79 We almost ...
CIVO Monthly Newsletter, Vietnam War, Air Cavalry, ...
Richard Kline provides names for Troopers in Mike Brideweser's MP1. Marshal Huckaby LRRP 1966-67 is trying to locate photos and information on several of our ...
WarStory Mortar/Recoilless Attack Cu Chi Mar 67
Two enlisted men were wounded seriously and 14 others with lesser wounds. The LRRP hooch (one that was hit direct) was fortunately almost empty. (They were on .
Info Joseph H. "Joe" Bridges
He came in- country about the same time I did and we spent many a day and night waiting out LRRP teams in tents scattered across the AO. Joe was all those ...
Info Mark James Ponzillo
Bruce Powell: I came to the Centaurs a few months after Mark left, but did my fair share of inserting/covering/extracting the great LRRP forces that he ...
Info Sheet - Nicholas H. "Nick" Doiron
Jul 11, 2020 — ... LRRP. In my last story in The Aviator (VHPA Magazine, Sep/Oct 2014) they have a brief play during the LRRP insertion. There was no troubles ...
Hobo Woods Battle 29 Jan 1968
Rick Arthur tells of the LRRP insertions that preceded the AeroRifle Platoon insertion. Tom Fleming has two videos. PreBattle (Part One) and Commanders ...
B57 Canberra Bomber Crash 1967
1LT Bain Cowell: As Artillery Forward Observer I was in the back seat of the C&C ship circling near the Saigon River, probably monitoring a LRRP mission.
WarStoriesInfo
Later in his tour I'm pretty sure that it was he who volunteered to ride in the back of a LOH to assist in the very hot extraction of one of our LRRP units ...
CIVO Monthly Newsletter, Vietnam War, Air Cavalry ...
Centaur LRRP SFC Alvin Floyd (KIA) will be inducted into the Georgia Military Hall of Fame on 5 Nov 2022. We encourage everyone to reread his InfoSheet with ...