Ranger Challenge is an enhanced training team which competes every year in various warrior tasks. The team is for those who strive for physical and mental toughness and are always looking for a challenge.
What are the benefits?
- Enhance your physical fitness.
- Recognition as an elite member of the ROTC community.
- Learn to operate as a team at all times.
- Acquire the ability to think and function under strenuous situations.
Training description:
Physical Fitness Training will be extremely challenging. It will be held separate from the Battalion on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. This training consists of both upper and lower body workouts, as well as endurance runs and fully equipped road marches.
The team trains three days a week and some Saturday mornings in order to master the skills required to execute the eight competitive events that take place in the Ranger Challenge Competition:
- Basic Rifle Marksmanship
- Land Navigation
- Weapons Assembly
- One Rope Bridge
- Hand Grenade Assault Course
- Patrolling
- 10 km Road March
- Physical Fitness Test
Pershing Rifles is an organization of cadets held to a higher standard than the traditional ROTC cadet. Riflemen go through a selection process of skills training in military tasks and tactics as well as strict drill and ceremony in order to join the National Society of Pershing Rifles.
History of the National Society of Pershing Rifles:
To foster a spirit of friendship and cooperation among men in the military department and to maintain a highly efficient drill company.” This is the purpose of the Pershing Rifles, as propounded by its distinguished founder in the early 1890s.
In 1891 General Pershing, then a second Lieutenant in the Sixth Cavalry, became Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University of Nebraska. He, wishing to improve the morale of the ROTC unit, formed a select company of men, thereafter known as Company A.
In 1892 this company won the maiden competition at the Omaha Competition. In 1893, the special drill company became a fraternal organization bearing the name of “Varsity Rifles.” In 1894, the organization, in appreciation of the initiative and cooperation of Lt. Pershing, changed its name to “Pershing Rifles.”
When Pershing left Nebraska in 1895, he, at the request of a committee, gave the company a pair of his cavalry breeches. These breeches were cut into small pieces and were worn on the uniform as a sign of membership. These “ribbons” were the first service ribbons ever worn in the United States.
Most young men and women don’t know what they are truly capable of because they have never been tested to their limits.
Hymer’s Challenge was established in the spring of 2008 with the generous support of the late LTC (R) Charles Hymer. This voluntary individual skills competition is designed to present each participant with a variety of grueling and stressful situations which will test endurance, basic military skills, motivation, and decision making. It is open to all freshmen, sophomore, and junior Cadets in the Wolfpack Battalion.
Want to find out what you’re made of? Think you’re up to Hymer’s Challenge? We challenge you to test your limits, demonstrate the Army Values, and live the Warrior Ethos by competing.
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