accomplishment in the event that it was easy to achieve? Those who bear the name “Ranger” have earned that title with their own blood, sweat, and tears. The number one reason for being removed from Ranger School is a weak mental state. A man can only take so much mental abuse before he cracks, to be a Ranger is not necessarily to not break, but rather dissembling it and carrying on. If one can muster the mental strength to hold on, then that is only half of the battle. Rangers must ruck with a total of about ninety five pounds for sixe to twelve miles with the goal pace being about fifteen minutes per mile (Ranger Assessment and Selection 1). What good is a Ranger who can’t navigate the terrain, so recruits must perform numerous land navigation test individually and in teams at varying times of day and night (1). All recruits must …show more content…
Recruits must take tests on Ranger history and take multiple screenings to evaluate their mental state. In conjunction with the above, recruits must take combat driving courses, participate in marksmanship training that prepares them for “direct action combat” (1). After a recruit passes those, they move on to explosives and breaching tactics. An Airborne Ranger goes through a lot of training, but it’s broken up into multiple stages tackled at different bases, from the wilderness of Fort Benning, Georgia, to a strip of airfield in Washington State, The Rangers go everywhere. Fort Benning is the Ranger’s home, their main base. At Benning is the main chunk of Ranger school where one learns the values of leadership and is taught the history and lineage of The Rangers. The pre-RASP and RASP are held here, which are the Ranger Assessment and Selection tests. Physically, there are two graded five mile