Long Range Patrol

Long Range Patrol (LRP) may refer to:

  • Long-range penetration, a technique for military reconnaissance, but which may also involve interdiction of enemy forces
  • Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol, a military unit which provides the eyes and ears for other forces but ideally has no direct contact with the enemy
  • The original name for the Long Range Desert Group, a British World War II unit

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or range:

    “The sage as astronomer.—As long as you still experience the stars as something “above you,” you still lack viewpoint of knowledge.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.”
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)