75th Ranger Regiment: The Gateway, An inside look at the Ranger Assessment and Selection Program

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to command sergeant major or battal Commander my name is private first class bar I graduated Ras one month ago and it all started in one place [Music] when I came through career ass a lot of it was standing on the rocks and ensuring that candidates were administratively ready to go to R1 um now become a much more comprehensive program utilizing the 6 weeks in between each individual R1 class up we utilize that to evaluate and prepare candidates to attend and pass Ras one during that time we will conduct more team events where candidates have to

work in an environment that is deliberately designed to challenge them both individually and as a team we also pair the candidates intellectually these will include Land Navigation classes wux sack packing classes all of the things we do here are to prepare candidates for what is about to be Ras one phase oneair phase one is a Relentless onslaught of demanding challenges that test a soldiers physical and mental strength under extreme conditions go down the road hurry up hand over hand you're going to hurt youself during Ras we introduced him to socp Special Operations comatus program we

know that every candidate has not been engaged in hand toand combat and sock P provides them with the tools necessary to be successful in a CQB environment range of first responder is a point of Destruction that the candidates get it's the assessment of the candidate's ability to quickly stabilize and retrieve a [Music] casualty it is the last point of instruction leading up to the culminative event which is their most challenging week within the [Music] course go let's go 5 4 3 2 one time up guys take take a casualty take him I need hey we

got a cam right here who doesn't have anything let's go and for those that are remaining they have one final task if they complete it they pass on to face two all f 2 is the second phase of Ras one where after we've tested their physical assessment in phase one we now start to introduce them to different skills and really start to test their mental capabilities the first thing that they're introduced to in Phase 2 is a marks and ship program for a lot of these cans the first time they have ever held a pistol

so we really hone in on the pistol skills as well as touch on basic rifle Marksmanship and even more advanced techniques that they're going to need to know to kind of Ranger standby [Music] [Music] [Music] also in phase two we introduce them to a couple of skills that increases The lethality as well as Mobility on the battlefield and lastly before graduation we bring them into the shoot house the shoot house is a culminating event between Phase 1 and Phase 2 specifically in the combat's program but not only are we testing the combat's capabilities we also

want to see the RO clearing capabilities the weapons manipulations and to see if they have the aggression that it takes to become a ranger [Music] [Applause] 3 [Music] [Music]