Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) in Vietnam | Gary Linderer (throwback ep)
The Team House
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
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00:00 — Start / Vietnam LRP veteran Gary Linderer joins The Team House
01:05 — Growing up with a WWII pilot father and trying to become a military aviator
03:46 — Arriving in Vietnam and volunteering for the 101st Airborne LRPs
08:46 — What LRPs did: long-range recon, helicopter insertions, and working far beyond friendly lines
12:41 — First patrol: immediate contact with a suspected Chinese communist fighter
20:31 — Life inside the LRP company: small teams, stand-downs, and constant readiness
23:37 — The Nui Ke mission: rocket belt patrols, mortars, and air support
29:42 — Night insertion back into Nui Ke and escaping under heavy .51-caliber fire
36:04 — November 20th heavy-team mission against the 2nd NVA Regiment
43:30 — Claymore ambush, killing an NVA major, and recovering the map case
49:53 — Enemy explosive wipes out the team and the fight to keep everyone alive
55:27 — Medevac under fire and the reaction force rescue
01:08:45 — Returning from the hospital as one of the “old guys” in the unit
01:12:14 — Search-and-rescue mission for downed helicopters near Firebase Tomahawk
01:26:36 — LRP weapons: M16s, CAR-15s, Swedish Ks, shotguns, and ammo loadouts
01:29:59 — Coming home from Vietnam, getting married, and carrying the war back with him
01:35:50 — LRPs becoming Rangers and fighting to preserve the LRP legacy
01:38:22 — Writing the books: letters home, reunions, and documenting the LRP experience
01:48:03 — Silver Star, Ranger legacy, helicopter pilots, books, and final thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Welcome to episode 224 of the team house. I'm Jack Murphy here with Dave Park. |
| 0:07.3 | Our guest on tonight's show is Gary Lindwer. Gary served in the Lerps, a long-range reconnaissance patrol, |
| 0:13.6 | which became Ranger companies later on in the Vietnam conflict. He's the author of a number of |
| 0:18.6 | different books. We have a few of his here, the Phantom Warrior |
| 0:21.5 | series, amongst others. We're really excited to have Gary on the show. We've had a few of |
| 0:26.2 | his teammates on before, Larry Chambers and Ken Miller. So this is, I feel like a long time coming, |
| 0:31.8 | Gary. So thank you so much for joining us tonight. Good to be here. So Gary, look, man, I mean, it's it's it's an honor and a pleasure. |
| 0:40.0 | And I'm, I'm going to pitch you the question. I pitch all of our guests. You know, tell us about |
| 0:45.4 | your origin story, about how you grew up what your upbringing was like and what sort of propelled |
| 0:50.2 | you towards military service. I was the oldest of eight kids. |
| 0:56.0 | My father was a World War II B-17 pilot. |
| 1:00.3 | And growing up, |
| 1:02.0 | couldn't get him to tell a lot of stories |
| 1:03.7 | about his missions in World War II. |
| 1:06.0 | But I aspired to be a pilot myself. |
| 1:09.3 | When I graduated from high school, I had a primary, I had a primary |
| 1:14.8 | appointment to the Air Force Academy. And in May of my senior year, when I went to take my physical, |
| 1:22.6 | they found out I had a brain concussion in a football game, my senior year in high school, and they informed me at the end of May that I was going to have to wait a year to attend the Air Force Academy. |
| 1:34.6 | Back then, if you waited a year, you would be drafted. |
| 1:38.0 | So I ended up applying at the last minutes of Missouri University. |
| 1:42.8 | I attended Missouri University for two years. |
| 1:46.1 | I was in Air Force ROTC. And at the end of two years, I ran out of money. My parents couldn't |
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