Fort Benning, Georgia: United States Army Infantry School, Ranger Training Brigade, 1988. Presumed First Printing thus this edition. Staplebound. Format is approximately 4 inches by 5.25 inches. Stapled at center of top edge. Various paginations (approximately 330 pages). Illustrations. Name and phone number written inside the front cover. This is a small manual designed to be carried in the pocket of a Ranger candidate during training. It contains a wealth of information on demolitions, boobytraps, first aid, rappelling, combat intelligence, survival, weapons, counter-guerilla tactics, and over 32 important subjects. Includes a Glossary, and well as chapters on Leadership, Combat Orders, Coordination Checklists, Departure and Reentry of Forward Units, Actions at the Objective, Patrol Bases, Linkup Operations, Communications, First Support, Army Aviation, Movement, Reconnaissance, Demolitions and Mines, Stream Crossing and Waterborne Operations, Military Mountaineering, Evasion/Survival, Combat Intelligence, First Aid, and References. The last page is The Ranger's Creed. Rangers were organized in 1756 by Major Robert Rogers, a native of New Hampshire, who recruited nine companies of American colonists to fight for the British during the French and Indian War. Ranger techniques and methods were an inherent characteristic of the frontiersmen in the colonies, but Major Rogers was the first to capitalize on them and incorporate them into a permanently organized fighting force. His "Standing Orders" were written in the year 1759. Even though they are over 200 years old, they apply just as well to Ranger operations conducted on today's battlefield as they did to the operations conducted by Rogers and his men. More