Ranger Training
Mucci had led a training camp in Hawaii which used Ranger training techniques. He announced that the Battalion was being converted from Field Artillery to Rangers, and downsized from 1,000 men to only 500. Most of the artillery officers were transferred out and replaced by Infantry and Engineer officers. Later the training camp was moved to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida where the 6th Rangers currently train.
The task of conversion and training took over a year, but by July 1944 it was completed. The battalion was transferred to Finchhaven, New Guinea, where it was reorganised as a Ranger Battalion and redesignated as the 6th Ranger Battalion.
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