RICA Organization
RICA By-Laws
The RICA By-Laws modified at the Reunion at Tacoma, WA in 2003 are now available as either a Microsoft Word or an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
Regions
Membership is broken into 9 Regions; Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, New England, North Central, Northwest, Southern, Southeast, Southwest, and Western with a Regional President for each Region. Each of the 18 of the Ranger Companies active during the Korean War and The Ranger Training Command/Center (RTC) has a Company Coordinator who is responsible for that company's membership.
Check the list below, to find the Regional President for the area you are located in, or the Company Coordinator for the Ranger Company in which you served, and contact that Regional President or Company Coordinator by following that link.
- Great Lakes Region: IL, IN, MI, WI, MN, & OH
- Mid-Atlantic Region: DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, DC, & Europe
- New England Region: CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, & VT
- North Central Region: CO, IA, KS, MO, NE, ND, SD, & WY
- Northwest Region: AK, ID, WA, OR, MT, UT
- Southern Region: AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, PR, & SC
- Southeast Region: TN, KY, NC, VA, & WV
- Southwest Region: AR, NM, TX, OK, & Mexico
- Western Region: CA, AZ, HI, & NV
Regional Presidents
Company Coordinators
 Company Coordinators Full List |
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History
Fortunately for all the Korean War Rangers, members of the 8th Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) invited members that had been found from all of the Ranger Companies to an 8th Ranger Company reunion at Fayetteville and Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. The gathering took place in July 1983. In that meeting, it seems a surge of interest was generated which spread to Korean War Rangers all over the country. All the Rangers who were "found" later owe many thanks to search efforts of those Rangers who were found early.
By the beginning of 1984, a semblance of a national organization was beginning to form. Ranger Bob Black of the 8th Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) had emerged as the prime driving force behind this effort. He and his Ranger friends were trying to pull together members from the Ranger Training Center/Command and from each of the eighteen Ranger Companies formed during the Korean War.
Individual Rangers interest in our national Ranger organization was growing steadily. October 3rd to 7th, 1984 we held our first national reunion as a Korean Ranger Group in Columbus and Ft. Benning, GA. Growing out of this reunion, The Ranger Infantry Companies (Airborne) Association of the Korean War was born. The search for Korean War Rangers really took off. Under the leadership of Ranger Herm Boldt from from 13th Ranger Company and with strong reinforcing efforts of Rangers from other Ranger Company, over 1900 Korean War Rangers were eventually found. And the effort still continues. Of those Korean War Rangers found nationwide, unfortunately over 1,000 are deceased.
Today, we are a close Brotherhood, gathering for Regional meetings all over the country every year, and nationally every two years for a grand reunion. Our Memorial Affairs Officer, Ranger Emmett Fike from the 10th Ranger Company, is responsible for marking over 80% of Korean War Rangers gravestones with a Bronze Ranger Scroll.
This ELITE Brotherhood of the Elite assist each other and the young active duty Rangers of today in true Ranger spirit, for they set the standards which the Airborne Rangers of the Present and the Future are required to meet!
