I think the Regiment places a lot of emphasis on the tab because Ranger School is usually the first formal school you go through when you enter battalion, and 99% of the time they wouldnt send you to any other until you completed it. I think its a gut check more than anything, a gut check that does require some luck lol. I remember yelling about "how gay this fucking school is" when I spent over 6 months there. I got my first no go because my 1SL put the claymore outside of our PB....facing our PB.... So shit like that (where you would normally be able to trust your SL in real life) gets you the bad marks, since Ranger School has attendees from all walks of life, which I would not trust my life with! Ranger School teaches you a totally different type of leadership, ie Micro-mangement at its finest, and the only way to operate successfully in Ranger Schoolis to be a complete dick head! I had a class full of IOBC dudes, and I was walking around the PB one night giving boots to all the people that were sleeping. "hey fuck you asshole" "hey fuck you too, Ill be sleeping soundly when youre up for a graded position mother fucker!" That leadership style did not fit in the same way when I returned to batt. What I took from the course is that it was simply a gut check, where you walked lots of miles with next to no sleep and next to no food. Now luckily I finally got my shit in after 6 months there, but I probably would have stayed there for at least a year, because I didnt want to have to put up with the assclowns back in Battalion. I was sent to school a few months after I got out of RIP, so I was a PV2, and I pissed off a lot of people that I bypassed who were waiting to go for much longer....so best believe I wasn't coming home to the wolves den without it!! Probably would have been a good idea to send me later so I was more familiar with the basics but liek they say adapt and overcome. Bottom line is it's one of those schools where you should find something that you can take from it, but luck will always play a big part of it unless you could get your head to spin around 360 degrees lol. Allow me this last moment to flip off guys like Cope who went straight through. ;)