Ranger Assessment and Selection Program

Follow-on courses including Airborne School and MOS-specific training like SOCM (Special Operations Combat Medic) are also required for RASP graduates.

In 1986, when the Regimental Headquarters was fully formed, a new consolidated RIP was started at Fort Benning, beginning in February 1985[clarification needed], where it was held until 2009 when it was changed to RASP.

In the second and fourth week of RASP, the class is sent to "Cole Range"; a remote training area of Fort Moore.

It is designed to test the individual to their breaking point both physically and mentally; trainees sleep on average 4 hours total throughout Cole Range as they spend their nights doing tedious tasks such as the "hitting the wood line" for being incapable of meeting the given time standards.

Although training such as patrolling and land navigation is taught at Cole Range, the main focus is to mentally and physically break down the individual.

Candidates will train on physical fitness, marksmanship, small unit tactics, medical proficiency and mobility.