The life of a Ranger can’t be rightly described in a short video, but we hope these building blocks clear things up for anyone hoping to take a dive into the 75th Ranger Regiment (or any Ranger family members out there wondering what their loved one is doing all day).

Luke Ryan went on four deployments to Afghanistan as an Army Ranger. He left as a sergeant/team leader and he is a Purple Heart recipient. Find more info on him below.

Some common questions:
✅ Yes, you become a Ranger when you are assigned to a Ranger Battalion, even before Ranger School. Graduates of Ranger School aren't necessarily Rangers, rather, "Ranger Qualified."
✅ RASP 2 is a program built for officers and higherranking NCOs, and that pipeline is different from this one.
✅ Other jobs (medics, forward operators, cooks, etc.) have different pipelines.
✅ Nuances change over time (like the name of Fort Benning, or in the past when exactly during the pipeline you go to Airborne School, or what they’re specifically teaching in RASP these days) but the building blocks have stayed the same for a long time.

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Video Chapters:

0:00 – Introduction
0:19 – Basic Training
01:25 – Airborne School
02:35 – RASP
04:26 – Life as a Ranger
06:59 – Ranger School
09:50 – Deployments (to Afghanistan)
11:51 – Personal Impact of being a Ranger