The Ranger TrainingBrigade, located approximately 12 miles from Main Post in the Harmony Church area, is the proponent agency for the Ranger, Long Range Surveillance Leader and Infantry Leader Courses for the U.S. Army.
The Ranger course develops the combat arms-related functional skills of officers and enlisted volunteers who are eligible for assignment to units whose primary mission is to engage in the close combat direct fire battle. The course requires students to perform individual as well as collective tasks and missions in a realistic environment under mental and physical stresses that approach those found in combat. Emphasis is placed on the development of individual abilities to apply established doctrine while further developing military skills in planning and conducting Infantry, airborne, air assault, and amphibious squad and platoon operations.

The Ranger course is 61 days in length with an average of 19.6 hours of training per day, seven days a week. It is divided into three phases
of training, with each phase being conducted at a different geographical location. The first (Benning Phase), 20 days in length, is conducted by the 4th Battalion, at Fort Benning. The second (Mountain Phase), 21 days in length, is conducted by the 5th Battalion, at

Camp Frank D. Merrill near
Dahlonega, Ga. The third (Florida
Phase), 17 days in length, is conducted by the 6th Battalion at Camp
James F. Rudder, Eglin AFB,
Florida.

The Long Range Surveillance Leaders Course is designed to train leaders for the Long Range Surveillance Units throughout the U.S. Army. It is 33 days in length with an average training day of 15 hours, six days a week. It teaches leaders the tactical and technical techniques of communications, insertion/extraction, opposing force identification, land navigation, surveillance/reconnaissance and employment by the train-the-trainer mode.

The Ranger Training Brigade lives up to the Ranger motto of
“Rangers Lead The Way.”