To become an Army ranger do you have to serve in the regular army first?

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Christian Barry

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Obviously, unless you get rangers in your contract (which i don't think they do anymore since enlistment rates have gone up) But you have to wait for a slot anyway, and you have to have a unit while you are waiting for that slot to open up. So expect to spend some time in a combat arms MOS first...and if you can't get rangers in your contract, you need to ask for Airborne because you need it before you get selected. So your best shot is to just try to get into an airborne infantry unit, do well and get recommended.
 
Any male can enlist with an Option 40 which gives you the opportunity to attend Airborne School and RASP. RASP is both the "try out" for and the initial training of Rangers. We have plenty of privates in the Ranger Regiments. Officers are different. Officers do have to have served in another part of the Army prior to requesting assignment to the Regiment.
 
Being a qualified ranger, all you have to do is go through ranger school. there are a few ways to do that:

1.) Active duty/National Guard Ranger contract. What that means is that you signed up with the incentive of getting to ranger school. This usually means you will go to the school, and then back to your home unit after you get qualified.

If you want to be in the ranger battalion...

2.) Join active duty, and do a 4187 packet, requesting a switch to a ranger battalion. what this means is that once your unit releases you, you join the 75 ranger regiment. From there you go to RASP (Ranger assessment and selection program). After passing that, you go back to your ranger unit and wait for a school slot.

This all depends on your MOS, but most 4187's get approved by the unit, since 75th always needs soldiers.
 
No you have to complete basic and AIT to do that. However, these schools have about a two year waiting list to get into. The Army is on a low budget and its going to be like this for a while.
 
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