The United States Army Rangers are U.S. Army personnel who have served in any unit which has held the official designation of "Ranger". The term is commonly used to include graduates of the Ranger Sch
Colonel Benjamin Church (1639–1718), father of American Ranging and Rangers. He is in the U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame and has a bronze Ranger Tab affixed to his gravestone.
1988 illustration of two soldiers of Rogers' Rangers conferring with a British Army sergeant by Manuel B. Ablaza
Rangers en route to liberate allied soldiers in the Cabanatuan POW camp
The Ranger School is a 62-day United States Army small unit tactics and leadership course that develops functional skills directly related to units whose mission is to engage the enemy in close combat
United States Army Rangers
…Army personnel who have served in any unit which has held the official designation of "Ranger". The term is commonly used to include graduates of the Ranger School, even if they have never served in a "Ranger" unit, because Army regulations and special qualification identifier (SQI) codes provide that the only…
An instructor explains abseiling to his students as part of Ranger School training, April 2009.
First graduates of Ranger School (1950).
An Airman 1st Class from the 823rd Base Defense Squadron receives his Ranger Tab after completing Ranger School (April 2011).
MAJ Jaster performs a fireman's carry on a simulated casualty during the first phase of Ranger School. MAJ Jaster was the first female US Army Reserve officer to graduate from the course (October 2015).