Posted on Aug 2, 2021
How many miles are rucked in Ranger School?
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I'm not talking about just the initial ruck march test; I mean how many miles are spent moving under a ruck throughout the entire school, on average, assuming you go straight through. All tactical movements, tests, smoke sessions, any time you're moving under a weighted ruck. I realize it will vary, but I'm looking for a good estimate.
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Sgt Dale Briggs
I hated it with a passion, but you push through till your done, you can’t bitch because everyone doing the same damn thing, so you shut up and suffer. You also learn how to best set up your gear too.
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I got thru the first time and got 6 leadership positions (2 in each phase/passed 5 of the 6) so you can add 500 miles doing Leader Recons AND way too many more miles putting people into their individual places. Counting many other miles where people (75% of my class were ROTC students) got lost ... er ... misoriented into the wrong ridge, swamp, path, tree etc, I personally think the only thing you can do is:
DON'T QUIT & KEEP YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR.
DON'T QUIT & KEEP YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR.
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1LT William Clardy
You're not truly lost if you have some clue about where you are, SFC Ralph E Kelley.
"What time zone am I in?"
"What time zone am I in?"
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This is actually part of the Ranger School inbrief. If memory serves correctly, it is 12-15 miles per day. Or that might be SFAS...
You can go onto the Benning ARTB website and check out the student brief
You can go onto the Benning ARTB website and check out the student brief
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CW3 Chuck Eastman
And that's assuming you go straight through. I was "so squared away," I got to do Mountain Phase twice. Hiking Mt. Yona for a second time is a humbling experience. There were also guys in my class that were Day 1 recycles from Florida Phase. So, total miles walked varies greatly.
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Sgt Dale Briggs
Ugh.... and then some, just a mental and physical beating. Much respect, it’s sad the basic PT test is pussed down, then you go to this extreme training.
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MAJ (Join to see)
Definitely less than that. I watched a comparison of Ranger and SFAS and Ranger is only 6-8 miles per day, it just sucks more because of calorie deficit.
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MAJ (Join to see) I've done both and I would say they are equivalent. It's just in Ranger School it's spread over 60 days and in SFAS it's compressed to 14-21 days, depending on when you went. Ranger School is "averaged" to 6-8 miles a day over 60 days. A quarter of those days are spent in planning and rehearsals. In the first phase your movements are a few kilometers and in the third phase they are a dozen or so per movement. There's a whole level of mental suck that adds on when you've been sleep deprived and food deprived for a month and a half and you're facing a 10k movement to a boat site, a several k walk through the swamps, another walk to the objective, then another dozen k walk to the patrol base. In Florida phase you average 2-4 hours of sleep a night, with some nights having zero sleep.
All in all, I wouldn't say that SFAS is easy, but it was a lot easier than Ranger School and RIP and every Ranger qualified Soldier and every 75th Ranger was selected from my class.
Going to be honest here.... I took several naps in the long walk in SFAS and was still selected. If you're in shape, and not a jerk to your teammates, it's really not hard.
All in all, I wouldn't say that SFAS is easy, but it was a lot easier than Ranger School and RIP and every Ranger qualified Soldier and every 75th Ranger was selected from my class.
Going to be honest here.... I took several naps in the long walk in SFAS and was still selected. If you're in shape, and not a jerk to your teammates, it's really not hard.
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