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Patrolling, cited paragraph by paragraph, from the Ranger Handbook.

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What’s inside

Coming next: Ranger Guide, your AI coach.

A question from the bank

Combat patrols are divided into which three kinds?

SourceTC 3-21.76 (19 Sep 2025), para 7-36, PDF p.146

What it will be written against

Doctrine changes. Always check the current edition on armypubs before you test.

Common questions

How much of Ranger prep is actually here?

Chapter 7 of the handbook, patrolling — planning and reconnaissance, the ambush and the raid, the patrol base and movement to contact. That is the graded event, so it is where the writing started. Battle drills, knots, mountaineering and the operation order are not written yet, and the sections for them are not shown until they are. Authoring is slow here on purpose: every item is read back against the page it was taken from before it ships, and several have been corrected that way already.

What will Ranger questions be written against?

The Ranger Handbook, TC 3-21.76, dated 19 September 2025 and approved for public release. It is the only publication a question here may cite. Study boards passed around at unit level are useful for working out what a student actually gets asked, but they never supply the answer, because several of them still reference the older 2017 handbook.

Will it cover what the phases are actually like?

That is planned, as reading, kept well away from anything scored. No publication describes what a day at Darby or Camp Rudder feels like, so that material cannot be cited the way a question is, and it will say so on its face. It is orientation, not a standard. Your own cadre is the authority on standards.

What else is open while the rest is written?

If you have a promotion board coming, that prep is open here and driven by your own command’s memorandum of instruction. The EFMB bank is also open if you are medical.

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