All officers and enlisted soldiers in the Regiment are volunteers. Those volunteers selected for the Regiment must meet tough physical, mental and moral criteria. Soldiers who do not pass ROP or RIP are transferred from the Regiment. Each Ranger battalion has 580 personnel assigned to three rifle companies and a headquarters company. The rifle companies consist of 152 Rangers each, while the headquarters company comprises the remaining Rangers.
Ranger battalions are light infantry and have only a few vehicles and crew-served weapons systems.
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