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FINALIST, 2009, ARMY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION KNOWN GUIDE AWARDThe second Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the very first and only all-dark Ranger device in the real history of america Army. Its five-month lifetime incorporated instruction, collection, and seven weeks of combat deployment in Korea, after which it the system was deactivated. Ed Posey’s wonderful fresh research, available these days in paperback, may be the first full record of the elite, all-volunteer system, whose members were drawn from the next Battalion of the 505th Airborne Infantry Regiment and the 80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion.After that great regular travails of boot-camp at Fort Benning, which segregation and bigotry just worsened, the all-dark Rangers attempted to join the Korean Conflict in late 1950. On January 7, 1951, the Rangers found themselves protecting a railroad operating through Tanyang Move, which Communist guerillas attempted to integrate.