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Ranger School has honed the professional skills and techniques necessary to conduct small unit operations. But the school teaches the Ranger he can overcome insurmountable challenges while under simulated combat conditions. Many students lose 20-30 pounds in the 56-day school. Ranger School is grueling due to the long hours of walking with your gear, sleeping in the field and eating one or two meals less a day than normal. This phase lasts 16 days and nights and tests the patrolling and leadership techniques of every Ranger. The third phase, or Florida Phase, teaches small boat operations, ship-to-shore operations, stream-crossing techniques and skills needed to survive and operate in a jungle and swamp environment. Students will eat, sleep and operate in these conditions for three weeks, usually eating no more than one or two MREs a day (Meals Ready to Eat). The rugged terrain, hunger and sleep deprivation are the biggest causes of emotional stress that students encounter. The second phase, or Mountain Phase, lasts 20 days and nights and teaches students to operate in small units while sustaining themselves and their subordinates in the adverse conditions of the mountains.
The Ranger student then must demonstrate his expertise through a series of cadre and student-led tactical patrol operations.
These graded field exercises include ambush and reconnaissance patrols, close quarters combat, airborne operations and air assault operations. However, the fundamentals of patrolling and small unit tactics are the focus of this part of the Benning Phase. The second part of First Phase has obstacle courses and long ruck marches as a major part of the physical fitness requirements. Pack on 5-10 pounds of body weight before going so you have a little to lose when you are consuming fewer calories a day. Running at least five miles 3-4 times a week and swimming in uniform 2-3 times a week is recommended as well.
You will do this every day you are at Ranger School. However, the most important pre-training exercise to do before Ranger school is walking fast in your boots with 50 pounds of weight on your back. To be competitive in any of these physical tests, the future Ranger students must not strive for the minimum standards above but must maximize their personal physical effort and strive for the following: Airborne soldiers will exit from a high performance aircraft and conduct tactical assembly area procedures."įind Available Special Operations Opportunities Additionally, the student executes demolitions training and airborne refresher training. Terrain runs with the Malvesti obstacle courseĪdvanced physical training assures physical and mental endurance and the stamina required for obtaining basic Ranger characteristics commitment, confidence and physical and mental toughness. This phase consists of a Ranger physical fitness test that requires 49 push-ups, 59 sit-ups, an individual five-mile release run event finished in 40 minutes or less and six chin-ups. "The Initial Phase is conducted in two parts the first part, Ranger Assessment Phase (RAP), is conducted at Camp Rogers in the Harmony Church area of Fort Benning.