Officers, Commissioned and Non-Commissioned
As of 2010, all NCOs and Officers must go through RASP to be assigned to the Regiment. An officer or an NCO wishing to move up a position within the Regiment also must complete the RASP, again. Any officer or NCO who leaves the Regiment for professional timeline, and wishes to return at a higher rank, must also complete the RASP, again. This change has resulted in an extreme professionalization across all ranks, where every Commander, all the way to the Regimental Commander, and every senior NCO to the Regimental CSM, has completed the RASP multiple times in their career. This alone sets the Ranger Regiment apart from the rest of the Special Ops community. No Ranger can simply hide behind their scroll, which they may have earned more than a decade ago.
Officers and NCOs have a shorter RASP, focusing on attributes and physical fitness. Every evaluation report throughout one's career is reviewed, along with letters of recommendation. Psychological evaluation, intelligence test, and a thorough physical fitness test (APFT with pull ups, CWST, 5 mile run, 12 mile road march) topped off with a detailed board run by senior Regimental leaders ensure that only the best are selected. Needless to say, only Ranger and Airborne qualified personnel are accepted. For special cases, non-Rangers and non-airborne PAX are accepted, contingent on their successful completion of those courses immediately following RASP.
Read more about this topic: Ranger Assessment And Selection Program
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