My grandfather was a ranger in korea. From what he has told me he was in the airborn rangers and based in North Carolina. Im not sure the unit or anything but i believ he said it was the first ranger btl. formed. His name is Jack Hicks and i was wondering if anyone new any information on him or how i could find any information out. He told me he was giving me is paratroopers ring and i just wanted to learn a little more information about the stuff they did becasue he dose not remember a lot of it. Thank you for the help!

anyone?

During the Korean war Rangers where assigned to Companys, with a Company per Division.

I have several books on them, but have no idea which box to look through for the titles. I am sure a few good books are still in print.

The Ranger Companies were numbered. If I rember right, the reason the 3rd Ranger Company stayed at Benning was to train future Companies.

There is also a book about an all black Ranger Company.

Seven Airborne Ranger companies served in the Korean War (1950–53). The Eighth Army Company was trained in Korea; the others were schooled by the new Ranger Training Command (established in September 1950) at Fort Benning, Georgia. All upheld the ranger tradition. The Eighth Army Company (with the 25th Division) was among the first to engage Chinese troops. Of forty‐eight rangers, twenty‐eight were casualties, including the commander, Ralph Puckett, who was wounded four times. In February 1951, the 1st Ranger Company (ninety men, with the 2nd Division) stopped a Chinese breakthrough at Chipyong‐ni, but was almost annihilated. The Far East Command disbanded all ranger companies by October 1951. Only the Ranger School survived—as the Ranger Department, Infantry School, now the Ranger Training Brigade.
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Exellent book.

thank you very much for the help