Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger

Sua Sponte
Latin for “Of Their Own Accord”
The 75th Ranger Regiment’s Motto

Army Rangers are not born. They are made. The modern 75th Ranger Regiment represents the culmination of 250 years of American soldiering. As a fighting force with our nation’s oldest and deepest tradition, the Regiment traces its origins to Richard Rogers’s Rangers during the prerevolutionary French and Indian War, through the likes of Francis Marion and John Mosby, to the five active Ranger battalions of the Second W...