Ranger Hall of Fame
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RANGER EMMETT E. FIKE, JR.
Ranger Emmett E. Fike distinguished himself as a leader in heavy fighting while in the Counter Fire Platoon of the 187th Regimental Combat Team (ARCT) on TDY to the 1st Cavalry Division. In just three weeks of fighting the platoon of 22 men lost their officer and 10 enlisted men including five Rangers. It was then and there that the zeal was ignited in Ranger Fike to memorialize his fallen comrades. He was determined that they would not be forgotten. Ranger Fike later fought with the 187th Regimental Combat Team in the re-taking of Koji-do Island POW Camp and in the Kumwa Valley attached to the 7th Division. During these campaigns more of his friends were lost and his zeal became a vow. In 1984 Ranger Fike helped organize the Ranger Infantry Companies Association (RICA) and served as president from 1987 to 1989. His battlefield vow to his fallen Ranger comrades had not diminished and in March 1985 he volunteered to serve as RICA’s Memorial Affairs Officer, a position that he holds to this day. In that capacity Ranger Fike has visited the graves of 58 Rangers killed-in-action and has held 53 memorials at Ranger gravesites and installed 69 bronze Ranger scrolls on the gravestones of Rangers whom were killed in action. This is work that he loves, in which he continues to be active. Ranger Fike worked tirelessly, often fighting uphill battles for the establishment, the site selection, the naming of Ranger Field at Fort Benning, Georgia, and for the construction and upgrading of the monument that bears the names of fallen Rangers.
