Incoming Ranger students will bring all required uniforms and equipment IAW Para I of this publication. To produce a mentally hardened soldier who has been acclimated to the Georgia weather and prepared to enter day one of the Ranger course. The Zero week program performance statistics indicate a lower rate of attrition during the first five days of Ranger training. It is not designed to train Ranger School candidates to graduate the Ranger Course. Zero week is not intended to make a soldier proficient in any single task.
Sustainment training is conducted to reinforce present skills and allow partial acclimation.
The APFT and CWST if passed counts for Ranger school.