Ranger Challenge

Ranger Challenge

Ranger Challenge is the Army ROTC Varsity Sport.  The team forms early in the semester and trains rigorously nearly every morning of the week.  Ranger Challenge team members accomplish more before 8am then most college students accomplish in an entire day.  The team trains all the way up until the Brigade Ranger Challenge Competition.  Like most sport teams, cuts have to be made and only the best remain.  The remaining members will go on to represent the Mohawk Battalion in the Brigade Ranger Challenge Competition in the fall.
 

The Brigade Ranger Challenge Competition is a two-day event conducted on a non-tactical course. The mission is to challenge Cadets’ mental and physical toughness and to develop leadership while fostering teamwork and esprit-de-corps. Teams participate in nine graded events.
 

1. Teams arrive at competition site.
2. Military Stakes.  Teams are responsible for conducting class I, personal hygiene, and PCI’s.  Team coaches are responsible for ensuring teams are at the designated start point. The Brigade TOC will direct the start of the military skills course and direct movement of the teams.  The military skills course is negotiated by team vehicle with designated stations each team must negotiate.  The start point for each team depends on their group. At each station the team performs a military skill.  Upon completion of the task, teams rotate following the order of events to the next designated point.  The military skills course ends at a time to be determined.  The groupings of schools for the competition will be determined the day prior to the competition.  The competing teams will be broken down into 5 groups labeled A-E.  The following lists the starting stations for the A-E groups.
3. 10 K Forced Road March Course followed by a night orienteering course. 
4. APFT. Teams execute the APFT and are evaluated by rotating Ranger Challenge coaches. The APFT is the culminating event for the Ranger Challenge.
5. Awards ceremony is held by the Second Brigade after the completions of the APFT.

 

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