text: vietnam, what was a long range recon patrol. tell me about it?   a lrrp in vietnam was basically a group of army rangers who volunteered to go into deep patrols in a certain area. their primary mission was to gather intelligence on the nva and vc. organized in six man teams, they were often used for other special operations tasks like guerrilla warfare (laying ambushes, terrifying enemies, etc), forward observation, etc. these men were high trained and very brave for doing this... after all, there was only six of them in middle of indian country, always outnumbered... the slightest mistake would kill them all.