Posted on May 12, 2020
How likely is it to have my gaining unit sponsor me for Ranger school before I PCS there?
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I graduate Airborne school early September and report in December.
Airborne School
Ranger School
Infantryman
11B: Infantryman
PCS
Posted >1 y ago
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Your unit cannot sponsor you for Ranger School if you are not a part of that unit. If you haven't signed in, it's not your unit. That's like saying you're a Ranger because you volunteered for RASP or you're SF because you volunteered for SFAS.
However, as an infantryman, if you have at least six months till your report date, your branch will allow you to attend Ranger enroute to your next assignment. Also, if you reenlisted for Airborne and you want to walk onto Ranger School with a valid airborne physical after Airborne, your Career Counselor can easily shift your report date to your follow on station for you so you can try out for RAP week and the rest of Ranger School.
However, as an infantryman, if you have at least six months till your report date, your branch will allow you to attend Ranger enroute to your next assignment. Also, if you reenlisted for Airborne and you want to walk onto Ranger School with a valid airborne physical after Airborne, your Career Counselor can easily shift your report date to your follow on station for you so you can try out for RAP week and the rest of Ranger School.
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SGT (Join to see)
Thank you, Sergeant. That's what I was looking for. I understand whether they say yes or no depends on them but I needed to give it a shot.
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SFC (Join to see)
SGT (Join to see) as I said, "they" your gaining unit cannot. Only your branch manager can amend your orders, and you must have at least six months to your report date for them to do that. You'll need to send your branch manager a copy of your Ranger physical to do it
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0%. You have to do the pre-ranger course before you can even get a slot at Ranger school
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No one will let you go TDY enroute currently. Due to the COVID-19 policy for PCSs. Once you get to your unit they will have to start the process if they want to send you. But there are a lot of steps before that. All PCS's must be less than 10 days with no permissive TDY until you get to your gaining unit.
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Unless they need you trained as a Ranger............not likely. Be you NG or RA that training cost comes from someones budget somewhere. Granted the budgets in the RA are not as constrained as they are in the NG but they still exist. So for example, you might see someone get a RANGER slot because of reenlistment (retention), that I believe is paid for out of retention funds just like a enlistment bonus would be. In your case your PCS'ing not ETS'ing. So they have no real reason to incent you because the decision to transfer was made. No reason to send you to RANGER school without even knowing you because the unit your being sent to does not need you to be trained in that. Not sure if that makes sense or not but generally works along those lines.
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No way, almost all units have a required pre-ranger course to pass before the will spend money on your school.
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When did they get rid of RIP? They used to offer it when you passed Airborne School but had not reported to gaining Unit yet.
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SGT (Join to see)
2010 I think.
I heard about that too but every other person says that isn't a thing anymore
I heard about that too but every other person says that isn't a thing anymore
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If it is. It a Ranger unit they will not. There is competition and order of merit in units to determine who might fill available seats. Be patient.
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SGT (Join to see)
Will do Sergeant Major. I appreciate it. I just heard of people walking in to Ranger school and my unit has sent people to walk in to it so I was wondering if there is another way.
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Slim to none. It’s hard to get allocated a school seat assigned to a unit that you haven’t officially checked into yet.
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SGT (Join to see)
I see. So it is not as long as someone pays and there is capacity at the class?
As long as there is a chance.
Thank you, SSGT.
As long as there is a chance.
Thank you, SSGT.
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SSgt Christophe Murphy
Seats to specific classes and specific schools are divided out to Divisions, Reg, etc. Ultimately there is set amount of openings and the parent Command is not only obligated to have a confirmed seat to the respective school but also commit to the cost of sending you to training. With that said it isn't really a thing to be sent to training by a Unit that hasn't received you yet. Hence "Slim to None". Prior coordination might expedite you going to a school soon after checking in but that would be different.
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