Badge - ARVN TIGER FORCE RANGERS - MEKONG DELTA - Airborne - Vietnam War - 5000

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Lapel Badge - Tiger Force Rangers - Elite Special Forces Airborne
MEKONG DELTA
- Vietnam War Badge - Brass - 81st / 91st Tiger Force Rangers
Tiger Force Rangers - Elite Airborne Special Forces
Yellow Background denoting Mekong Delta Operations
Measures - 1 x .7 inches ( 2.5 x 2 cms).
Saigon Made - Luong Tan Metal Shop - Un-used, Impeccable condition.
This is lapel badge of members of the 91st (Tiger Force) Ranger Battalion, all airborne qualified that were assigned to 'Camp Strike Force' a combined Tiger Force & Mike Force Special Forces Unit that operated out of the US Special Forces Camp at Bien Hoa.
Their role was 'Long Range Special Recon', the identification of enemy camps and through their actions and the actions of summoned air-strikes the annihilation of the Viet Cong bases found.
Among the elite of the Special Forces serving in the Vietnam War, the 91st stood out for their ferocity in battle and their additional training including Jungle Warfare and they were, to a man, all Airborne Qualified.
The 91st Rangers were the last standing of the units that eventually stood between the Viet Cong and their taking of Saigon in 1975.
PATCH - The 81st / 91
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Ranger Group
The 81st Rangers were a unique unit originally formed as part of the Project DELTA reaction force. Formed on 1 November 1964 as the 91st Airborne Ranger Battalion and consisted of three companies of Montagnards. (Camp Strike Force).
A fourth company was added in 1965.
It was reorganized in 1966 as the 81st Ranger Battalion by the "purging of non-Vietnamese" to make it more "effective". The 81st consisted of six all-Vietnamese companies. It was officially under LLDB command and not that of Ranger Command.
It was actually under the direct control of Project DELTA although two companies were made available to the LLDB. Its primary mission was to provide airmobile reaction forces to aid in the extraction of recon teams and execute immediate exploitation raids on targets discovered by the teams. It was also used to reinforce SF camps under siege. During and after Tet it also fought in Saigon and handled urban fighting conditions quite well.
The 81st Ranger Battalion was later expanded to seven companies and renamed the 81st Ranger Group which was facilitated by the merger of Delta Teams with the existing three Ranger Companies. The entire unit was parachute trained and was under the direct control of the ARVN G-2.
In 1975 it was headquartered at Trang Lon, Tay Linh, and consisted of a Headquarters, seven Ranger and one Pathfinder company. Group strength varied from 920 to 1200 men.
The 91st/81st battalion continued to wear the old LLDB Green Beret instead of the Ranger Brown/Maroon Beret.
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