The Ultimate Guide to Becoming an Army Ranger | Luke Ryan
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Published 2023-10-25
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 higher-ranking 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.
Read more about what it takes to become a Ranger here: www.sandboxx.us/blog/how-to-become-an-army-ranger/
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Find his books of war poetry:
The Gun and the Scythe: www.amazon.com/Gun-Scythe-Poetry-Army-Ranger/dp/10…
A Moment of Violence: www.amazon.com/Moment-Violence-Luke-Ryan/dp/B089M5…
Or his post-apocalyptic novel, The First Marauder: www.amazon.com/First-Marauder-Luke-Ryan/dp/1733809…
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 Rang
All Comments (21)
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Basic -> OSUT -> RASP I/II -> Airborne-> Platoon Specialty Training -> Deployment work-up Training -> Advanced Specialty Training
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I’m so glad that you’re branching out with these other series. This one particularly is so important. The technology and the ability to have a country that can make things like F-35’s needs the people first. The lessons learned on the ground are what shapes our future
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America's first special forces. The US Rangers were created, trained and advised by the British Army Commandos in 1942 Achnacarry Scotland. The 1st and 29th Rangers were born. Direct copies of the Commandos. These later used their new Commando skills to create the 2nd and 5th US Ranger Battalions in 1943 who participated in D day. "Ranger" was selected because of the British colonial Rogers Queens Rangers (Scottish border Rangers). 8 British advisors accompanied the US Rangers at Point Du Hoc aswell as 3 SWANS. The later US Green berets, Marine Raiders, US Seals/OG all trace their heritage back to the Commandos. US DELTA force was later modelled on the SAS 🇺🇸
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RASP comes before airborne school because people were getting RASP contracts just for the airborne
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i heard they actually changed it to going to Airborne AFTER (if you complete) RASP now b/c recruits were wanting to go airborne and the only way was with an Option 40 contract (Ranger contract) - so they were quitting after Airborne and before going to RASP... thou, it'll always be RIP to me! RLTW 1/75
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Great breakdown and explanations. Thanks for the video!
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(I never served.) Luke Ryan, when I hit about 40, I noticed the older I got, the younger my heroes got. Now at 71, THANK YOU for being one of them! ❤🤍💙
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Respect to those guys, but the only time I ever said "I want to be an airborne ranger" was singing cadence while running. My year and a half training as a Russian-language radio intercept operator was not physically challenging, but was both fun and rewarding.
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thank you for your service and describing the 'short version' of the process
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I'm really liking this new segment! Keep up the good work Sandbox
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Very much appreciated. My respect and appreciation are not enough expression of your service. Thank you.
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Excellent presentation, Luke Ryan! I got the general idea of the training requirements to be an Army Ranger. God bless you sir and I hope and pray 🙏 you are prospering as a civilian.
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Thanks for the video! My son was 2/75th.....nice to see the pathway. I know he worked his a** off.
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A much clearer chronology than a number of other depictions I’ve watched.
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Thank you for you service, Luke Ryan.
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Love these videos! Looking forward to the next one.
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Luke Ryan is a great story teller. I was unaware that even getting to Range School is such a journey.
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Excellent and look forward to more new content
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Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to future videos.
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Great video. I especially like the part you described the "new guy" feeling in the Ranger battalion. So true....
