This is the very patch (which I ordered 100 of) I obtained for the Company after I came home in June 1970 and sent to the Company Commander, Cpt. Ohle who is now a three star General. And It is displayed exactly the way I had the guys wear it in Vietnam, with the Airborne tab off of the eagle and (for those of us who were School trained) no Ranger black & gold tab above the scroll. I did not want to set the Officers and key NCOs apart from the lower ranking guys doing the patrolling, no matter how much prior combat service we had. When the Division Command Sergeant Major Bob Young, who had been my Battle Group CSM at Ft. Campbell for years prior to Vietnam, saw the airborne tab missing from the eagle he asked what in hell was I doing. I said OK, I am Ranger School qualified. If I put the Ranger Tab above the Scroll and leave the airborne tab on the eagle it will read like this from top to bottom, Ranger, Airborne Ranger, Airborne and that's a little much. He said, "OK, just get them in the same uniform." That's the Army always worrying about uniformity. I don't recall who it was, but a Division visitor to the Company area one day made a remark after watching patrols dismount at acid pad from helicopters extracting teams about the lack of uniformity in their headgear. I really wasn't trying to be a wise guy when I told him, he was welcome to go tell them to get it together. He left, quickly. The Division Pathfinders, Scout Dog Platoon, Public Information people, etc were all wearing the black & Gold scroll worn by F/58th Long Range Patrol, the company that preceded us, but with their own logo on the scroll. After I got my knuckles rapped a few times because everyone immediately blamed the Rangers for anything that went wrong, I changed the patch and brought the Merrill's Marauder insignia in to wear on the caps. During July-Aug. 1969 I went home on re-enlistment leave and when I returned I brought my black beret that we wore (unauthorized) at the Army Ranger School. We got rid of the black baseball caps then. Guys began having Marauders patches made for their berets and scrolls from local Vietnamese. The one displayed is one of the type if not actually one of them, that I sent back to CPT Ohle. The unfortunate thing was we were never able to officially wear the scroll. Following the Grenada parachute assault by the 1st and 2nd Ranger Battalions 75th Infantry, President Reagan was about to do something politically correct and make the personal award to a Ranger of Mexican American heritage who was a Medic, of a Silver Star. Well, the two Ranger Battalions had rejected wearing the modified Merrill's Marauder patch and illegally opted for a Ranger scroll that looked like someone took a pair of pliers and squeezed the thing from both sides. When the Army Chief of Staff realized the President was about to make an award to a Soldier wearing an unauthorized shoulder sleeve insignia (patch), HE immediately authorized the Rangers which was by this time a Regiment having had the 3rd Battalion activated and a Regimental Headquarters also, to wear the Ranger scroll, however the word airborne was removed. They seem to think all Rangers are synonymous with airborne, but to this day we still have non jumping Ranger School qualified people in the Army. In the process we learned the Army never authorized the scroll for WWII, Korea, Vietnam or for the 2 Battalions of the 75th Ranger Infantry until this event described above.  With the activation of the 3rd Bn. and Regimental HQ's the term 75th Ranger Infantry became history. It is now 1st 2nd & 3rd Bn and Regimental HQ's of the 75th Ranger Regiment. So, we are a microcosm in Ranger History, however, it was the work turned in by the 75th Ranger Infantry Vietnam that prompted and old LEG Tanker warrior General Creighton Abrams to form the 1st Ranger Battalion during January 1974 while I was the Sergeant Major for the Army Ranger School. At the time, Abrams warned the selected Battalion Commander that if there was any repeat of anything Rangers had done previously (outside of combat) the Commander would become history in the US Army. Earlier Rangers had a history of drunken brawling that is unmatched except amongst Paratroopers and some Navy/Marine Special Operations types, and Abrams wasn't going to have that. This incidentally is the FIRST time in the history of US Rangers we have had Rangers during peacetime. They were always inactivated after a war. Each President since Reagan has seen fit to use the Rangers FIRST in any tactical operations because they know what to expect from them as tactical unit.