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Male and female Ranger Training Assessment Course students demonstrate their knowledge of combat water survival techniques at the Briant Wells Gym indoor pool Jan. 24 during the Ranger Training Course Assessment at Fort Benning, Ga.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Patrick A. Albright\/Army<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n The first phase of RTAC mirrors the assessment phase at Ranger School and is designed to assess a soldier’s physical and mental abilities. During this phase, a student conducts a PT test, a swim test, land navigation, and a 6-mile foot march. The second phase of RTAC, the field training exercise, is designed to assess and train soldiers on troop leading procedures and patrolling, skills that are used extensively during the Ranger School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On average, about 45 percent of Ranger School students will graduate. As many as 60 percent of all Ranger School failures will occur in the first four days. Many get disqualified during the physical fitness test on the first day. The test gives candidates two minutes to do 49 pushups and two minutes to do 59 situps, and they also must run five miles in 40 minutes and do six chinups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fiscal 2014, PT test failures made up the largest number of Ranger School failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pushup portion of the PT test has been difficult for male and female candidates at RTAC, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some don’t have the right form, while others couldn’t do the 49 required of them within the allotted time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both RTAC and Ranger School are “physically and mentally demanding” courses, Maj. Gen. Scott Miller, commanding general of the Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning, has previously said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Not every soldier is going to make it through this course,” he said. “The standards are demanding, and the standards are not changing. They’re not changing in the pre-Ranger course, and they’re not going to change for the Ranger Course.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Six more female soldiers have qualified to attend Ranger School this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":70,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[7,12,70],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-13908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-transition","category-news","category-your-army"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"TBTBH25PUZEOBFGHQLFBZCFFXU","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-army\/2015\/04\/01\/six-more-women-qualify-to-attend-ranger-school\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n