Ranger Challenge
2010 WPI ROTC Ranger Challenge Team, Division Champions.
About Ranger Challenge
The Ranger Challenge team provides cadets with another opportunity for exciting and challenging training. Ranger Challenge is Army ROTC's "varsity sport." Annually, more than 300 universities nationwide field teams to compete in a series of challenging events. Locally, cadets compete against 18 New England schools and teams from other areas of First ROTC Region in a series of yearly competitions which culminates in the First Region Championship at Camp Edwards, MA. Training for this event includes rigorous physical fitness workouts, information classes on various elements of light infantry tactics, and a weekend Field Training Exercise where rifle marksmanship, rope bridging, land navigation, and other skills are practiced.
WPI’s Ranger Challenge team consistently places high in the annual competition, winning numerous individual events. In 2010 the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Ranger Challenge Team took first place overall in their Division as well as placing first in the Orienteering and APFT events.
WPI ROTC Ranger Challenge Team finishes strong during a Ruck March.
Events in Competition
Events include:
- Basic Rifle Marksmanship
- Land Navigation
- The Army Physical Fitness Test
- Field Leadership Reaction Course
- Weapons assembly/disassembly
- Obstacle Course
- 10-Kilometer forced road march
- One Rope Bridge
Who Can Join?
The Ranger Challenge team is required to have between 8 to 10 cadets in order to compete. All cadets are eligible to try out for the team, men and women, scholarship and non-scholarship cadets in all years of Military Science. What is really required to be on the Ranger Challenge team is desire, commitment to the team, and as the name implies, the willingness to go further than you ever thought you could.
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