greens berests vs. army rangers?

Question

what do green berets do? what do army rangers do? how long is green beret school? how long is army rangers school? what are more of the specifics to both jobs? how are both jobs alike (or arnt they whats soever)? How are they different? the person to answer this question in the best detail themselves will recieve the points please dont direct me to websites unless you can simplify what the website says and have

please dont give me who you prefer or whos better just give me what i asked for please

Answer 1

Green Berets are more of a Intelligence behind the scenes group. They work on counter terrorism, spy type & even humanitarian work. They do alot of the physical too! (My Uncle was a Green Beret in Vietnam - he flew helicopters behind the line). Their missions can be long. Rangers are more of a go in & clean & area for troops or humanitarian help.
Green Beret school can last from 26 weeks to 59 weeks depending on your assinment (that is the 3rd phase - the 1st 2 phases are 11 weeks). The Ranger school is 9 weeks. Both have 3 weeks of airborne school. Ranger School does have its own website with some really cool video. My son is a US Army Ranger - he graduated last March. He was one of 29 out of a class of 136 to gradaute with no recycling. Rangers can wash out of any of the 3 passes once (that is once for all 3 phases- that includes illness - broken bones & etc) and be given a 2nd chance to pass it The average Ranger canidate will lose about 38lbs during the school & half will never graduate at all. My son said they were told they would try to physically & mentally break them. 2 hours of sleep a night, strenous exercise & events, limited calories, & timed mental questions from trainers all day. My son is a rock climber, mountain biker, snow & water skier, runner, & etc., but he says that is the toughest thing he has ever done. He loved the repelling, fighting, shooting (he went to sniper school before Ranger school), map reading but hated all of the swamps, rain & mud.LOL
You know what they say "RANGERS LEAD THE WAY"! hooay!

Answer 2

Green Berets, (aka Special Forces or SF) and Rangers have a totally different job.

The SF were designed to be dropped far behind enemy lines and to recruit, train, and build an army out of the local peoples. Think of them as "Rebellion in a can." The plan was that you drop a 12 man A team into an enemy country, and they are not only self supporting, they work with the locals and build (over time) a full blown allied army. They are heavy into language skills, and how to live off the land and improvise things. They were developed during the Cold War. JFK was the guy who authorized the green beret.

The Rangers are an elete light infantry strike force. Their job is to RAID things. They go to very difficult places and blow up, capture, kill, or even occasionally rescue, a particular target, person, location. Then they get pulled out and come home. They are heavy into speed, stealth, and lethality. They get in, they do the job, and they get out, before the bad guys can react.

There is a certian amout of overlap between the two groups on occasion. More people have been to Ranger School than the SF Q course. Ranger School is sort of a "must have" if you want to make General in the Army. Rangers are Army all the way. They are the most elete Infantry Regement in the US Army.

The Q course on the other hand puts you into the Special Ops community (SF and CIA have been known to work closely together on occaison) and being in Spec Ops is VERY hard on your chances for making Colonel or General. There aren't that many slots for S.F. Generals, and once you are in Spec Ops it is hard to get into another track. By going to the Q course you are pretty much saying "I'm never going to get a star on my shoulder." SF is a lot more likely to wind up working on the spooky side of the house than Rangers are.

Note, you get the RANGER tab when you go to RANGER school and pass. However people assigned to the RANGER regiment have a special unit patch as well as the tab. The tab alone is a mighty impressive accomplishment, but many more men go to RANGER school than wind up being RANGERS in the 75th Inf. RANGER Regiment.

Both schools are very long, but If I rememer right the Q course is a lot longer. Ranger School is more or less an endurance test... picture going for 90 days without sleep. The Q course has a lot more academic content, and SF also then get trained in their particular specialty, be it Medic, Commo, Light Weapons, Heavy Weapons, Demo, etc. AND they cross trained so that if any member of the team gets killed there will be someone to fill in for him.

S.F. works in 12 man teams, far from any support. RANGERS work as an Infantry unit, just tougher and better trained.

Anyone who tells you one is better than the other is an idiot who never served. Every SF person I knew respected the Rangers, and all the Rangers I knew respected SF. They aren't "Better; because the REAL solders understand that each unit is different and has different skills and will perform different missions. Asking which is better is like saying "Which is better a hammer or a microwave oven?" Each has different jobs to do, and each does its particular job well.

Answer 3

Special Forces (Green Berets) work mostly as a humanitarian effort, and do a lot of influential work, but when they come under fire, they are hard motherfuckers, and will slaughter it all.

Rangers on the other hand are pure raiders. That's really what they do best. If there's a mission where something/someone needs to be captured or killed, and with a lot of Violence of Action, the Rangers are the first to be called in.

Answer 4

Green Berets are more geared toward small unit tactics. They are more specialized in fighting a force larger than themselves using overwhelming firepower and "shoot and scoot" tactics.

Rangers are more geared toward larger unit tactics. They are still very dangerous and elite.

Basically it's this: Wanna take over an airfield? Call the Rangers. Wanna kill the guy standing in the flightline of the airfield and leave without being seen? Call the Green Berets.

Ranger school is one of the toughest trainings in the Army. Most people who try out for Green Berets however are washed out. In a way, both trainings will kick your butt and many people who start both trainings don't finish. Green Beret training is more geared toward overcoming your physical and mental limitations so you and your unit can survive on your own for extended periods of time. Ranger school really pushes your physical limitations as well, but it is more in the context of the larger Ranger force that you are in. You are more geared toward "take and hold" mentality as opposed to the "stealth and deadliness" attitude of the Green Berets

Answer 5

Above Answer excerpt:

"The French Foreign Legion also has a parachute regiment which craps on the US Special Forces!"

Really, I didn't know that. So the French have a military now? Interesting. Where were they during WWII? If it weren't for the US, people in France would still be speaking German today.

Answer 6

Army Special Forces are hearts and minds specialists (among a huge arsenal of other things).

Rangers are similar in stealth but more conventional as a force once deployed as a unit.

That is the short answer.

Answer 7

Both are Jokes!
If you want the toughest special forces in the world, go to either Australia (SAS regiment) or Israel. The French Foreign Legion also has a parachute regiment which craps on the US Special Forces!

Answer 8

green berats train others form gurilla warfare. they are the ones who train and fight guilla wars. the schools are long and tough.

Answer 9

Navy seals beats um both

Answer 10

Neither!!!! Spell-check will get your further in life!!