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Camp
Rudder is the final stage of the nine-week
course that starts at Fort Benning, Ga., and
continues in the mountains of northern Georgia.
After parachuting into Camp Rudder, the students
spend 18 days learning jungle tactics, including
stream crossings. The Ranger course is designed
to further develop military leaders who are
physically and mentally tough and
self-disciplined. It challenges them to think,
act and react effectively in stress approaching
that found in combat.
The Florida Ranger Camp was established
November 15, 1951, by then MAJ Arthur
"Bull" Simons who was named the
Commander of the Amphibious/Jungle Training
Committee at Auxiliary Field Seven, which was
the initial location of the Camp. Colonel Simons
was later the Commander of the prisoner of war
rescue attempt on Son Tay, North Vietnam. The
Florida Ranger Camp remained at Field Seven for
20 years until it was moved to Field Six in
January 1970.
In June 1974, the Florida Ranger Camp was
officially renamed Camp James E. Rudder in honor
of MG James E. Rudder, who commanded the 2d
Ranger Battalion when it scaled the cliffs at
Pointe du Hoc, France, during the 1944 D-Day
Normandy invasion.
The 6th
Ranger Training Battalion's mission is to
develop the leadership and combat functional
skills of future ground combat leaders by making
them conduct missions in a tactically realistic
environment under physical and mental stress
that approach those found in combat. Included in
the filed training exercises are airborne and
helicopter assaults, small boat operations,
river crossings and swamp crossings.
Leadership
skills are taxed when conducting small unit
operations in a simulated combat environment by
the daily challenges students encounter
including severe weather, swampy terrain,
periods of sleep and food deprivation, mental
and physical fatigue, as well as emotional
stress.
You
Want to Become a Ranger?
The 75th Ranger Regiment is a flexible,
highly trained and rapidly deployable light
infantry force with specialized skills that
enable it to be employed against a variety of
conventional and Special Operations targets.
Ranger selection is competitive.
Candidates must pass a stringent orientation
course before selection to Ranger School. While
there, they'll face the kinds of physical and
mental challenges that will serve as a
foundation for membership in one of the Army's
elite combat units.
If you think you are up to the challenge,
here are several ways to get more information
about enlisting for a Ranger unit in the United
States Army
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