Jäger is a German military term referring to specific light infantry units.
Painting of jägers of the Electorate of Hesse
Franz Rudolf Frisching in the uniform of an officer of the Bernese Jäger Corps with his Schweizerischer Niederlaufhund, painted by Jean Preudhomme in 1785
Jägerpatrouille, painting by Richard Knötel (1910)
Royal Bavarian Jäger Battalion No. 2 Aschaffenburg. Oberjäger, field marching order, around 1910
The United States Army Rangers are U.S. Army personnel who have served in any unit which has held the official designation of "Ranger". The term is commonly used to include graduates of the Ranger Sch
Jäger (infantry)
…rifleman" (in an infantry role) or "Rifles" (in regimental names); and "ranger" (especially in North American English; see below). In English Jäger is often written as jaeger (both pl. and sgl., which is the alternative German…
Colonel Benjamin Church (1639–1718), father of American Ranging and Rangers. He is in the U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame and has a bronze Ranger Tab affixed to his gravestone.
1988 illustration of two soldiers of Rogers' Rangers conferring with a British Army sergeant by Manuel B. Ablaza
Rangers en route to liberate allied soldiers in the Cabanatuan POW camp