One of the militants killed while attempting to infiltrate the Russian Bryansk region had a tattoo of the elite 75th Ranger Regiment, a US Army Special Forces paratroop reconnaissance regiment, the Russian Federal Security Service reported.
One of the 75th Ranger Regiment's paratroop battalions is always on high alert and can be deployed anywhere in the world within 18 hours.
According to open source data, the 75th Ranger Regiment is an elite unit of US special forces for reconnaissance, sabotage and diversion behind enemy lines; capture and hold of airfields; capture or destruction of strategically important enemy facilities; and capture or elimination of high-ranking officials.
Units of the regiment took part in combat operations in Vietnam in the late 1960s.