Weapons involved included M-16A1 rifles, an M-60 machinegun and the M-79 grenade launcher. We spent a good deal of time on reconnaissance techniques, stealthy movement in the field, camouflage discipline and small arms familiarization. veteran Russ Thurman conducted the training for this film as I was committed to a starring role in the ABC TV series Supercarrier. We designed a week-long training curriculum for the Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol members using the famed 173rd Airborne Brigade as their parent unit. When they returned with hot, perishable intelligence information, the teams were debriefed thoroughly and the major command then planned and carried out combat operations based on this information. For certain missions where contact was likely, they sometimes carried an M-60 machinegun, but this was not standard operating procedure since LRRPs were expected to avoid contact while collecting intelligence information. They moved quickly deep into enemy territory and traveled light carrying not much heavier than individual weapons. Patrols usually were made up of five to eight LRRPs led by a veteran NCO. They received special training in reconnaissance techniques, intelligence gathering and survival in the field during clandestine ops. Most LRRPs were outstanding volunteer infantrymen and veteran soldiers who usually transferred into a LRRP unit after a full or partial tour with a regular grunt unit. They were formed and used mostly in the mid-war period (approximately 1967 to 1971) to obtain more accurate and timely human intelligence (HumInt) on enemy forces in a unit’s Tactical Area of Operations. LRRPs were the long-range eyes and ears of major Army commands in Vietnam. Since writer/director Patrick Sheane Duncan served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam, we patterned our LRRPs after soldiers from that unit. Army in a number of Division level commands.

We based the unit on real LRRP Teams used by the U.S. The soldiers in this film are all members of a Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol.

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