Painted Warriors - Rangers on the DMZ - Part 8 - Dowds Dirty Half

Painted Warriors - Rangers on the DMZ - Part 8 - Dowds Dirty Half Dozen This is Part Eight of a NEW Ten-part 2-hour documentary about America’s elite Army unit in Vietnam. Vivid accounts of those who lived it and memories of those who didn’t return. The full DVD is available exclusively at . During the growing anti-war dissent of the 60’s who would leave high school, family and friends ? Who would go for rigorous airborne training ? Who would volunteer for the most dangerous place on earth ? ...these men did. Now, 40 years later, here are the vivid stories, pictures and memories. A documentary dedicated to the Ranger Killer Teams that never returned. Meet the men ...experience their stories. P Company 75th Rangers was the northern most Ranger unit during the Vietnam War. They were the long range patrols, the eyes and ears, for the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division. The company never had more than 80 members and was broken down into 6-man teams. These small units of elite airborne soldiers were dropped behind enemy lines to gather intelligence and ambush North Vietnam regulars trying to accomplish the same type of missions. They were required to carry heavy field packs, extra Claymore mines, canteens and grenades while surviving for over a week on their own until picked up by helicopter. The Rangers and their flight crews sustained unusually high casualties, many times losing an entire team. Larry Smith, sole survivor of Ranger Team 1-6, describes the shoot down that took the lives of fellow rangers Sgt Thomas Joseph Dowd, David Leon Barber, Roy Jeffrey Burke, James Howard Dean, Gary Philip Sinclair and the helicopter crew. Dave Slone, sole survivor of Ranger Team 1- 8, remembers the shoot down that took the lives of his fellow rangers: Sp4 Anthony Joseph Gallina, Sp4 Dale Alan Gray, Pfc Glenn Garland Ritchie and Sgt Harold Erwin Sides as well as the helicopter crew. The grunts of Alpha 1/61 Infantry also lost two men to a mortar barrage while rescuing him at the crash site platoon leader 1LT Richard H. Stube and PFC Michael T. Linville