Percentages

[M-EightySix]

I searched but could not find an answer for my question so I will ask it here.

What percentage of applicants make it through RIP?

I read that 35% make it through Ranger School. Is this correct?

[Parabellum]

The ones that can hack it make it. The ones that can't....well....."Put on your boots, boots, boots and parachute, chute, chutes."

[M-EightySix]

Thanks for the inspiring message Ranger H8 Train.

Now I have another question.

How many total rangers are there on active duty right now?

[Dublo]

Five and a half......one of the dudes is a little short fucker.

[Bell]

I searched but could not find an answer for my question so I will ask it here.

What percentage of applicants make it through RIP?

I read that 35% make it through Ranger School. Is this correct?

It isn't written in concrete. Weather, fuckups, injuries, quitters, all contribute to the percentage scale. Each class is different.

RIP? We started with way over 100 people. More like 200. Over 40 guys got up and walked off one day while we were doing our thousandth pushup after about 4 hours of smoke. We finally graduated 15 guys to the Battalion. Class 13, June 1980.

This isn't something that will affect your training. It isn't something you need to know. It's tough. That's all you need to know and you'd better be ready.

RLTW
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[Dublo]

Somehow, I knew that it would turn into one after I posted that. I honestly didn't have that occurrence in mind when I wrote it, but later realized that I had done Spartan an injustice.

[Parabellum]

Thanks for the inspiring message Ranger H8 Train.

Now I have another question.

How many total rangers are there on active duty right now?

That is none of your fucking business. Use the search button and type in OPSEC. It will tell you why this question should never be asked. Nor will it ever be answered.

[Creeping Death]

I searched but could not find an answer for my question so I will ask it here.

What percentage of applicants make it through RIP?

I read that 35% make it through Ranger School. Is this correct?

I have no idea, and honestly don't care, and would caution you to care either. I think you will find that few Rangers worry about that kind of shit too much, unlike other units in sister services appear to at times.

Sure, there are dropouts all the time, and the numbers can get high at times, but I never worried about them AT ALL. I was totally mission oriented, whether it was surviving RIP and earning my beret, or passing Ranger School and earning my Tab. If, at any time, a Ripee or Ranger School Student fell out for whatever reason, then they were dead to me. If they were RFS'd, they were dead to me. If they failed their PT test, they were dead to me. If they were peered out, they were dead to me. For whatever reason you want to imagine, if they ceased to be part of the team working by my side to accomplish the mission at hand, I had neither the time, nor the desire to worry about what that brought the numbers up to. They ceased to exist in my mind.

I am sure we had a lot of people that did not make it in my RIP class as well as my Ranger School class. But guess what? I honestly cannot remeber a single one of their names or faces. Why? Because they don't matter to me. Never have. Never will. In the mindset of most Rangers, you will see that an individual is one of two types (generally speaking):

1. Part of the team, and slugging it out with your brothers to accomplish the mission at hand.

2. Or an individual who is not contributing to that cause, and has usually failed himself or his brothers in arms.

I always chose to worry about the men that were getting it done, rather than the ones that were not. In addition, it is my opinion that those that want to be able to say that only x% of men pass XYZ training, and therefore it is the toughest in the world, tend to recruit people who will concentrate too much on the loosers and not enough on the winners. I don't give a shit about the 70% who fail, I want to know the 30% who succeeded.

People are gonna drop. That is a fact. At times, they will drop like flies. You would be much better served to keep your eye on the golden ring, and worry about the men who are still slugging it out standing next to you, rather than how many people didn't bring enough weight in their scrotum to handle the lifestyle.

[Looon]

Thanks for the inspiring message Ranger H8 Train.

Now I have another question.

How many total rangers are there on active duty right now?

Asking this question is a fucking violation of the rules of this site. Go read the FAQ!!

[McD]

I did some major research on this topic as I thought doing a comparison of the drop out rate at RIP vs Ranger School would be interesting.. I was able to pull the data from the past twenty years of RIP and Ranger School to use a my population for a statistical analysis. I looked at mean and median fall out rates as well as doing a regression analysis on same and I have a difinative answer of the fall out rate at RIP for the pass twenty years.

The answer is: Some will, some won't.

[Rock Island Ranger]

I did the same thing but came out with different answer.

1. What percentage dropout rate for RIP? Not enough
2. How many Rangers on active duty, let's see....3 battalions, a Regt. HQ, support, hummm, R to the 19th power, divided by 12 multiplied by 5, carry the 4....

....several dozen give or take 12.

[McD]

Ah!!! You have an advanced degree!!

[M-EightySix]

Rangers: I'm sorry for violating your operational security.

[Bell]

Rangers: I'm sorry for violating your operational security.

It's not ours. The Army, then the Rangers taught us. We paid attention and learned well.

RLTW
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