Before soldiers can count themselves among those elite ranks, they must pass the Ranger Assessment and Selection Program, or RASP. Historically, RASP has a 50% attrition rate — sometimes higher.

The unit is sending some Soldiers straight to Ranger School from the Ranger Assessment and Selection Program and Small Unit Ranger Tactics course, instead of to a battalion and deployment.

After your basic and advanced training, you will be part of the Ranger Assessment and Selection Program (RASP), but there is a pre-training phase: Pre-RASP is where you will see the Army PFT ...

Over the last five years, the Army has been testing and developing new fitness tests and standards, updating the APFT with the ACFT. In recent years, other tests have been added or modified to ...

The 75th Ranger Regiment holds its Ranger Assessment and Selection Program class 05-15 graduation ceremony at Fort Benning. (U.S. Army). The heralded legions that count themselves members of the U ...

All members of the 75th Ranger Regiment have passed the Ranger Assessment Selection Program 1, 2, or both. The U.S. Army Ranger Course, located at Fort Benning, Georgia, is the Army's premier ...

FORT MOORE, Ga. — Exhausted after three straight days of intense training exercises that took the young soldiers more than 50 miles on foot, they plopped down against pine trees just inside the ...

Women soldiers must have a negative pregnancy test within 30 days before their Ranger Assessment and Selection Program report date. Candidate applications will be screened and reviewed by leaders ...

but it is not the same thing as passing the Army's Ranger Assessment and Selection Program (RASP), which produces the elite troops who deploy as Rangers, wearing distinctive tan berets and ...

This summer, the Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine studied soldiers completing the first and second phases of the Ranger Assessment and Selection Program at Fort Benning.

All members of the 75th Ranger Regiment have passed the Ranger Assessment Selection Program 1, 2, or both. Anyone who is serving or has served within the 75th Ranger Regiment is a U.S. Army Ranger.

Requenez, an assistant machine gunner, had previously graduated Airborne School and Ranger Assessment and Selection Program 1. According to Stars and Stripes, Ranger School is considered one of ...