4th Rangers Training BN Ft Benning Camp Rodgers Darby Color Army Challenge Coin

Description

4th Rangers Training Battalion
Fort Benning
Camp Rodgers
Camp Darby
Color Version
Army Challenge Coin
Condition
:  Used, but in nice shape.  Please see pictures.
This coin is 1 5/8 inches in diameter.
An actual unit coin, and is a version of the coin with slight color variation of hard baked enamel from the all silver toned version of this beautful Ranger coin.
Copyright:
DKP
Training
Ranger School training has a basic scenario: the flourishing drug and terrorist operations of the enemy forces, the "Aragon Liberation Front," must be stopped. To do so, the Rangers will take the fight to their territory, the rough terrain surrounding Fort Benning, the mountains of northern Georgia, and the
swamps
and coast of Florida. Ranger students are given a clear mission, but they determine how to best execute it.
The purpose of the course is learning to soldier as a combat leader while enduring the great mental and psychological stresses and physical fatigue of combat; the Ranger Instructors (RIs) – also known as Lane Graders – create and cultivate such a physical and mental environment. The course primarily comprises field craft instruction; students plan and execute daily patrolling, perform reconnaissance, ambushes, and raids against dispersed targets, followed by stealthy movement to a new patrol base to plan the next mission. Ranger students conduct about 20 hours of training per day, while consuming two or fewer meals daily totaling about 2,200
calories
(9,200
kJ
), with an average of 3.5 hours of sleep a day. Students sleep more before a parachute jump for safety considerations. Ranger students typically wear and carry some 65–90 pounds (29–41 kg) of weapons, equipment, and training ammunition while patrolling more than 200 miles (320 km) throughout the course.
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Ranger School students will participate in three
airborne
, and several
air assault
operations throughout the duration of the course, relying on
C-130 Hercules
cargo planes
, as well as
UH-60 Black Hawk
and
CH-47 Chinook
helicopters
, for insertion and extraction. Non-airborne personnel will work
drop zone
details while the other students jump. The students also have the ability to call-in and utilize
close air support
in the form of
AH-64 Apache
attack helicopters
and
AC-130H Spectre
gunships during many of their missions. All aircraft are provided by other nearby units as part of a training co-operative.
Benning phase
The first phase of Ranger School is conducted at
Camp Rogers
and
Camp Darby
at
Fort Benning, Georgia
and is conducted by the 4th Ranger Training Battalion. The "Benning Phase" is the "crawl" phase of Ranger School, where students learn the fundamentals of squad-level mission planning. It is "designed to assess a Soldier’s physical stamina, mental toughness, leadership abilities, and establishes the tactical fundamentals required for follow-on phases of Ranger School".
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In this phase, training is separated into two parts, the Ranger Assessment Phase (RAP) and Squad Combat Operations.
The Ranger Assessment Phase is conducted at Camp Rogers. As of April 2011, it encompasses Days 1–3 of training. Historically, it accounts for 60% of students who fail to graduate Ranger School.
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Events include:
Ranger Physical Fitness Test (RPFT) requiring the following minimums:
Push-ups: 49 (in 2 minutes, graded strictly for perfect form)
Sit-ups: 59 (in 2 minutes)
Chin-ups: 6 (performed from a dead hang with no lower body movement)
5 mile individual run in 40 minutes or less over a course with gently rolling terrain
Combat Water Survival Test (no longer conducted as of 2010)
Combat Water Survival Assessment, conducted at Victory Pond (previously called the Water Confidence Test). This test consists of three events that test the Ranger student's ability to calmly overcome any fear of heights or water. Students must calmly walk across a log suspended thirty-five feet above the pond, then transition to a rope crawl before plunging into the water. Each student must then jump into the pond and ditch their rifle and load-bearing equipment while submerged. Finally, each student climbs a ladder to the top of a seventy-foot tower and traverses down to the water on a pulley attached to a suspended cable, subsequently plunging into the pond. All of these tasks must be performed calmly without any type of safety harness. If a student fails to negotiate an obstacle (through fear, hesitation or by not completing it correctly) he is dropped from the course.
Combination Night/Day land navigation test – This has proven to be one of the more difficult events for students, as sending units fail to teach land navigation using a map and compass. Students are given a predetermined number of MGRS locations and begin testing approximately two hours prior to dawn. Flashlights, with red lens filters, may only be used for map referencing; the use of flashlight to navigate across terrain will result in an immediate dismissal from the school. Later in the course, Ranger students will be expected to conduct, and navigate, patrols at night without violating light discipline. The land navigation test instills this skill early in each student's mind, thus making the task second nature when graded patrolling begins.
A 3-mile terrain run, followed by the Malvesti Field Obstacle Course, featuring the notorious "worm pit": a shallow, muddy, 25-meter obstacle covered by knee-high
barbed wire
. The obstacle must be negotiated—usually several times—on one's back and belly.
Demolitions training and airborne refresher training.
Modern Army Combatives Program (MACP) training was removed as a part of a new POI at the start of 2009; it was reinstated with Class 06-10. The Combatives Program was spread over all phases and culminated with practical application in Florida Phase. However, MACP has been removed from Ranger again, starting with the Combatives Program in Mountains and Florida and followed by the removal of RAP week combatives in class 06-12.
A 12-mile forced, tactical
ruck march
with full gear from Camp Rogers to Camp Darby. This is the last test during RAP and is a pass/fail event. If the Ranger student fails to finish the march in under 3 hours, he is dropped from the course.
The emphasis at Camp Darby is on the instruction in and execution of Squad Combat Operations. The phase includes "fast paced instruction on troop leading procedures, principles of patrolling, demolitions, field craft, and basic battle drills focused towards squad ambush and reconnaissance missions".
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The Ranger student receives instruction on
airborne
/
air assault
operations, demolitions, environmental and "field craft" training, executes the infamous "
Darby Queen
"
obstacle course
, and learns the fundamentals of
patrolling
, warning and operations orders, and communications. The fundamentals of combat operations include
battle drills
(React to Contact, Break Contact, React to Ambush, Platoon Raid), which are focused on providing the principles and techniques that enable the squad-level element to successfully conduct
reconnaissance
and
raid
missions. As a result, the Ranger student gains tactical and technical proficiency, confidence in himself, and prepares to move to the next phase of the course, the Mountain Phase.
(REF:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_School
)
NOTE:
This Army Ranger challenge coin is an actual unit coin and is a hard find.
It was acquired from an expert in Special Forces challenge coins who has been researching and dealing in older coins for more than 20 years.
I was fortunate to obtain some of these wonderful coins in very nice condition, which are seldom or if ever seen for sale.
Will entertain trade for other actual unit Army Ranger challenge coins.
All coins are guaranteed to be in excellent condition unless otherwise specified above.
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