I suspect that observation and complaint had alot to do with the decision to re-designate and field Ranger Battalions beginning in 1974 with 1-75th Rgr at Hunter AAF, Savannah, GA.
I remember them getting pieces of the 2nd battalion at Ft.Lewis in 1973, but they weren’t officially activated until I had already left the Army, they were activated in the fall of 1974.