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Roger Brown, owner of All-American Recycling Inc., Columbus, Ga., has been inducted into the U.S. Army Ranger Army Ranger can refer to:
  • United States Army Rangers
  • Irish Army Rangers
 Hall of Fame in Fort Benning Fort Benning, U.S. army post, 189,000 acres (76,500 hectares), W Ga., S of Columbus; est. 1918. One of the largest army posts in the United States, it is the nation's largest infantry training center and the home of the Army Infantry School. , Ga.

Brown joined the Army in 1963 and served in the 101st Airborne Division as a rifleman. He attended Ranger School The United States Army Ranger School is an intense nine-week long combat leadership course, oriented towards small-unit tactics, and conducted in three separate three-week-long phases - at Fort Benning, Georgia, U.S.A.  in 1965 and re-enlisted for Vietnam several times.

His awards and decorations include two Bronze Stars with V Device for Valor valor

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; one Army Commendation with V Device; and a Purple Heart.

In 1974, Brown was assigned to Fort Benning to help form the First Ranger Battalion. He served as a weapons platoon leader, a company executive officer and the company commander of Battle Company First Ranger Battalion. He then served in increasingly higher ranking roles in the Ranger Department in the U.S. and in Europe, retiring from the Army in 1983.
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