Editing Long-range reconnaissance patrol (section)

{{Short description|Military unit that patrols in enemy-held territory}}
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[[File:Long-range patrolling.jpg|right|thumb|[[United States Army Rangers|U.S. Army Rangers]] LRRP team leader and radiotelephone operator, [[Vietnam War]], 1968]]

A '''long-range reconnaissance patrol''', or '''LRRP''', is a small, well-armed [[reconnaissance]] team that [[patrolling|patrols]] deep into enemy-held territory.<ref name="ankony1">Ankony, Robert C., ''Lurps: A Ranger's Diary of Tet, Khe Sanh, A Shau, and Quang Tri,'' revised ed., Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Lanham, MD (2009). [https://www.amazon.com/Lurps-Rangers-Diary-Sanh-Quang/dp/0761843728/ref=dp_ob_image_bk]</ref>

The concept of scouts dates back to the origins of warfare itself. However, in modern times these specialized units evolved from examples such as [[Rogers' Rangers]] in colonial British America,<ref name=ankony1/> the [[Lovat Scouts]] in World War One, the [[Long Range Desert Group]] and the [[Special Air Service]] in the [[Western Desert Campaign]] and [[North West Europe Campaign|North West Europe]], similar units such as [[Force 136]] in East Asia, and the special [[Sissi (Finnish light infantry)|Finnish light infantry]] units during the Second World War.

Postwar, the role was carried in various [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] (NATO) and [[British Commonwealth]] countries by units that could trace their origins to these wartime creations such as the [[British SAS]], Australia's [[Special Air Service Regiment]] and the [[New Zealand Special Air Service]], [[1er RPIMa]], [[13e RDP]], [[Commando Parachute Group|GCP]], [[Groupement de Commandos Mixtes Aéroportés]] in France and the [[United States Army Rangers]], [[Long Range Surveillance]] teams, and the [[Dismounted reconnaissance troop|dismounted reconnaissance troops]] of [[Reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition|RSTA squadrons]].