Those women went through the course 4 times.
RTAC: a very tough two week or so course. It has the same physical tests as RAP week, and an extremely tough land nav course. Very tough.
No shame taking this course, and many men fail it but still move onto Ranger School.
If you move immediately to Ranger School, your body is already starting to be seriously word]n down.
Ranger School. RAP: physical pass fail tests in the first few days. Darby, Mtns, Swamps are the the later phases and can usually be recycled if you pass RAP. Fail RAP and you are gone, fail Darby, Mtns, or Swamps and you can be recycled.
I have it that roughly less than 15% of men pass all the stages without a recycle. Recycles aren’t bad; it is a wonderful aspect of Ranger School where the ultimate goal is to teach leadership and the Ranger Students learn so much more the 2nd or even the 4th time thru a phase. I have heard of men that have recycled 13 times...or more.
Ranger School is nominally a 61 day class, but most men take 150 days to complete.
So much misinformation about Ranger School...not saying women is a good or bad thing, just describing the school a little bit for better arguments pro or con.