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Diary of an Airborne Ranger: A LRRP's Year in the Combat Zone Cantatas introduces the reader (whatever hisWhen Frank Johnson arrived in Vietnam in 1969, he was 19, a young soldier untested in combat like thousands of others but with two important differences: Johnson volunteered for the elite L Company Rangers of the 101st Airborne Division, a long range reconnaissance patrol unit, and kept a secret diary, a practice forbidden by the military to protect the security of LRRP operations. Now, more than three decades later, a rare look at the daily