The 2024 Best Ranger Competition Opening Ceremony

Dive into the action of the Airborne Ranger Training Brigade’s 40th Annual LTG (R) David E. Grange Jr’s Best Ranger Competition, streaming live from Fort Moore, GA! For 60 grueling hours, witness elite Ranger-qualified ‘buddy’ teams push their limits in the ultimate test of human performance. This livestream is powered by 4k Solutions, Globalgig, and BlackOhm.

In between livestreams, don’t miss a moment of the action – track the competitors’ progress with the BlackOhm Team Tracker at https://blackohm.com/brc/ as they navigate through the adrenaline-fueled challenges!

everybody my name is bla Rees I want to
welcome you all to uh beautiful and
rugged Fort Moore Georgia the home of
the Airborne and ranger training
Brigade and this the site of this year’s
Lieutenant General David E gra best
Ranger competition this year marks the
40th anniversary of the
competition of moving further faster and
fighting harder than any other
Soldier competition’s truly going to
highlight the best of the
best the 56
teams 29 different
units all preparing to step into the
arena this
morning uh between
myself Jay and Kobe we we hope to bring
you a front row seat to one of the the
best and more most grueling uh
competitions
around uh and we look forward to sharing
the rest of the next three days with you
guys um and here in a little bit we’ll
bring you a little bit more info on what
these guys look like what they’re in for
over the next three days um and we’ll uh
we’ll take you along alongside of them
as as best we can so we look forward to
it and uh we’ll see everybody out and uh
we’re going to move our way over to the
uh to the start line and uh go take a
look at the teams
all the teams are lining up right now
they’re going to get ready to start
doing introdu uctions presentation of
the flag and the colors so we’re going
to head over there so you can enjoy this
opening ceremony prior to the mass start
run
begins expecting really large crowds
today a lot of folks coming in you can
see them coming in
now this morning start time was pushed
back the opening ceremony usually starts
at 5:30 today it’s at about 6:00 in the
morning so hopefully you get some more
viewers bright and early the attempts
are what 50s and theow 50s right now
right now perfect start yep perfect
temps that Wii KCK on
yep trying to spectate okay we’re live
streaming okay well we still got to go
over there there’s a media
area oh you’re this guy sorry I didn’t
see him
okay you want take yes not
we’re going to do our best to stay up
with these guys over the next three days
believe it or not they don’t lose a
whole lot of
speed even after going at this stuff for
three days
so they’re uh I found that out last year
doing this these guys can still move
we’re going to get you in here for the
opening
ceremony I’m going to hold up here for
just a minute and get situated and then
we’ll get up in there get you up close
ladies and gentlemen the opening
ceremony will begin
all right we’re moving
again it’s over there under under that
line was that
I think I think we’re going to try to
hang out here I think this is uh I’m
going to move in a minute once the teams
come through we’re going to see if we
can catch the teams coming in
here actually I’m going to make a move
big big crowds out here right
now what’s up
man get out of the
way I went out
to all right I think we’re going to try
to hang out here for a bit and then
we’ll make a move again here in a minute
CU I had to turn in the old system yeah
then turn around issue the new system
and then train Euro EUR
crew lots of people here lots of people
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all right we’re going to we’re going to
sit here and see if we can catch as many
teams as we can coming through they’ll
run right through here then we’ll move
up and uh see if we can get up closer to
the action
so you’re probably wondering a little
bit what these guys look like um their
average age is
28 their average weight over the
last over the last 39 years of this
competition their average their average
weights about
165 they’re all obviously Airborne
Ranger qualified they’re all
volunteers they’re considered decathlon
caliber
athletes and the numbers for this year
there’s they’re approximating 26%
of the field of competitors are former
uh former competitors have done it
before and again there’s 56 teams that
are going to line up this morning to
step into the
arena good to see we got a bunch of
folks on already it’s a little dark and
a little cold here but glad to see
everybody on watching
I’ll do my best to get you guys where
you can see all the action
about
that
was they were ready toap
really
important where it’s
all right we’re going
to look to make some moves here Al the
see the teams over here the lined up
take a look at them through the fence
here there they
are that’s the teams all lined up right
there getting ready to come in be
introduced
they’re all fired up they’re antsy
they’re hydrated they probably all got a
pee right
now it’s just the nerves are going crazy
the best thing that can happen right now
is for them to start then everything
settles down they get relaxed but right
now they’re a ball of
nerves okay here we go the history of
the best Ranger competi began in July
an organization known as the chairborne
Rangers as the ranger training
department to design and conduct a
ranger Olympics to identify the best
Twan Ranger team in the Army the
competition sets extreme Demand on the
team’s physical mental and Technical
abilities as rers the standards of
performance must vastly exceed those
required by the
average the first two best Ranger
competitions in in 1982 and 1983 were
held as competitions between teams from
each of the three Ranger Department camp
in 1984 the competition expanded to
include teams from throughout the Army
over the next 39 years the best Ranger
competition has risen to a national
scale to determine the best Twan Ranger
team from the entire United States armed
forces the competition is a 3-day event
consisting of physical mental and
Technical tasks undertaken with little
rest in between events teams must
complete selected events to remain in
the competition the top 28 teams will
have the opportunity to compete on the
second day and among them only the top
16 teams will compete on the third and
final day the competition has grown to
include multimedia coverage and
high-profile death
and guest speakers this year Lieutenant
General James J mink 39th Vice Chief of
Staff of the army will speak at the
award ceremony on Monday the
15th ladies and gentlemen at this time
please rise and render the appropriate
courtesy to the Airborne and ranger
training Brigade color guard as they
deliver the color stream
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ladies and gentlemen the invation given
by chap Wallace ja airb Ranger Brigade
chap remain standing to render the
appropriate courtesy for a National
Anthem sung by Tony Thomas from The
Martin Army Community h
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the all right here we go
48 ladies and Gentlemen please direct
your attention to the far side of the
road where we will announce the
competitors in the
2024 best Ranger competition this year
we have 56 total teams representing 30
different
units team one representing the First
Armor division first lieutenant Taylor
and Sergeant First Class
bilio
team representing the first Cavalry
division first lieutenant top and first
lieutenant
roen team three representing the first
Infantry Division first lieutenant nun
and first lieutenant
Stewart Team Four representing the first
Infantry Division
first lieutenant Gran and first
lieutenant
Kev team five representing the second
Infantry Division major
andap representing third infantry
division first lieutenant palone and
second
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Lieutenant team s representing the third
infantry division Captain om and
specialist
V team representing fourth infantry
division first lieutenant angle and
first lieutenant
pner team representing for Infantry
Division sta Sergeant Ren and sergeant
team 10 representing the seven Petry
division Captain Ramirez and Captain
story team 11 representing the seven
Infantry Division Sergeant First Class
Bill and Sergeant
vro team 12 presenting the 10th Mountain
division first lieutenant a and first
lieutenant
B Team 14
representing division specialist Russell
and first
liid you may notice they didn’t give uh
then give handout number 13 so there’s
no Team 13 Team 15 representing the 11
Airborne
Division GE first class
weer team 16 representing the 11 airborn
Division first lieutenant sord and first
lieutenant
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Morgan game 17 representing 25th
Infantry Division first lieutenant
calone and first
lieutenant team 18 representing the 25th
division Captain Y and first lieutenant
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biano team 19 representing the 25 three
division first lieutenant Huffman and
first class
and is
there there’s
teames Airborne Division
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22 representing 82 airport division
first lieen and first lieen
Le team 23 representing the
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there
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team 26
representing
Cavalry lien alred and first
lien team 28’s coming up there’s 27
right there
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here they are team
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28 29 represen third infantry regiment
lieutenant andal
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tees 173r Airborne Brigade combat team
first lieutenant SEO and first
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lieutenant team 31 representing the
first Army Sergeant Major and Sergeant
First
CL let’s go
Cavalry division first lieen grim and
firsten so as we do this over the next
couple of days if you guys leave us
notes in the chat we’ll try to get your
questions answered or try to move to get
you some positioning or things like that
but but um we’ll do the best we can to
get you as close as we
can
representing and
Captain team 35 representing the
maneuver Center of Excellence Captain
Christopher and
36 representing the maneuver Center of
Excellence Captain U and
Captain 37 refes the airb ranger
training
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pict
ran representing that airport ranger
training Gade Captain a Royo and
sergeant
williams9 refere
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75th representing the
75th
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team 42
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representing te 43 represen 75 R
regiment
Sergeant sergeant
44 representing
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75th team 45 Ry the United States Army
Special Operations
Command first
46 representing the United States Army
Special Operations Command Captain
Robertson and Captain
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ryam 47 representing the United States
Army Special Operations
Command First Sergeant First
team 48 representing the United stes
Army Military
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Academy 49 representing the Army
National Guard Captain Potter and first
class
Brown all right we’re getting close to
the end 50 representing the Army
National Guard Sergeant Street and Start
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Specialist representing the Army
National Guard Major Brown and Captain
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B 52 representing security Force
assistant command captain and
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Captain team 53 representing the first
of the 59 parachute Infantry Regiment
joint re trading center first lieutenant
darier and first
lieutenant team 54 representing to
National Training
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Center representing the joint
multinational Training Center first
lieutenant Bradley and first lieutenant
Mareno in of 5 25th expeditionary
Military Intelligence Brigade Sergeant o
specialist
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Mar and team 57
representing division
okay so ladies and gentlemen at this
time the Airborne and ranger training
Brigade Commander Colonel Christopher C
are you going hard tomorrow
yeah he took like seven na driv
here this time last year he charged the
final competitors with a speech that
would have drawn the best out of anyone
with
ansh is with each of us Spirit be
proud like Puck and the name sake of
this competition General reti gra the
men in the r years this Same Spirit
these competitors from 56 teams ACR the
United States Army represent profession
of arms
excellent they AED
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show here they
go there they go
no
wow is
my C is my fault
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all right the uh we got a crew ready to
go as soon as these guys bolt out of
here and they’re going to take off fast
you just saw them leave just run to the
start line these guys are going to go
very
fast they get out of here we’ve got a we
got a crew that’s going to to the
starting
line please welcome the
2004 best Ranger Competition winner
sergeant major retired Colin bully who
will join Colonel Hammond in firing the
ceremonial start pistols on the 20th Ann
I AR of his best Ranger competition
victory at that time staff sergeant Foy
had finished 13th in the best Ranger
competition in
1998 and second place in
2000 in Spring of 2004 staff sergeant
Bley was deployed with the third ranger
battalion to Eastern Afghanistan until
just days before the best Ranger
competition upon deploying step Sergeant
bully was asked if he would postponed
his two weeks of RNR to compete let’s go
ful accepted the challenge and he and
his partner staff sergeant Adam Nash
competed and won the 21st best Ranger
competition edging out another team from
the 75th Ranger regiment for the
win gentlemen when you are
ready got this Tim good luck guys no big
r one
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all right guys they’re 12 seconds into
64 plus hours of doing this so it’s
going to be a it’s going to be a long
day
all right so I’ll be signing off here
the guys are going to start picking up
on the live stream uh here just
momentarily they’re going to be uh
taking you for they’ll be on a Gator in
front of the uh the running crew so
they’ll be able to capture all that so
I’ll be signing off here shortly so
you’ll want to switch over to the other
live stream uh with the uh with the
Buddy
runs we’ll have you guys hopping across
channels all day today but uh we’ll keep
it live for you the whole time thanks
for tuning in on the
uh the start in the opening ceremony um
and I’ll be back on a little bit later
uh when they get back to this side of
the post uh for the malvesti field event
he said if you do it I’ll do
it I would say
so I’ll tell you a little bit about
since some of you are still on I’ll tell
you a little bit about what goes on here
um these guys are going to
burn in the neighborhood of 30 to 35,000
calories they’ll get about four hours of
sleep combined over the next 4 days
three four days they probably didn’t
sleep very well last night so they’re
extremely exhausted already and they
haven’t even
started
um they’ll be
doing over 60
miles uh out
here half of it with over 50 lbs on
their back in Boots and uniform
obviously they’ll be fir in
are handling at least 13 separate
different weapon
systems everything between handgun rifle
long gun machine gun high explosive and
mortar weapon systems both mounted and
dismounted they’ll be tested on
Marksmanship weapons assembly complete
knowledge of the weapon
systems be doing 18 separate tactical
task out here over the next three days
they’ll do everything from a tactical
workout of the day to a zipline across
the infamous chattah huchi
River they’ll do a kayak that I’m sure
will be longer than they
want four helicopter
missions a medical hoist thrown in for
for a little test all of it within 64
hours
they even have a live stream on here
with a or I’m sorry a live feed with all
the competitors uh locations you just
saw the billboard moving there they’ll
keep all the uh all the
teams hello ma’am how are
you good
thanks oh I’ve changed
all right so it’s winding down here um
everybody’s going to be back through
probably in about an hour is what we’re
guessing um again if you guys want shift
over to the uh shift over to the the
live stream feed on the Buddy run they
they’ve got it going live right now um
Jay and Kobe are working that and then
they’ll be back here for malvesti field
so I’m going to sign out here um that’ll
conclude the uh the opening
ceremonies um and again I’ll pick back
up probably in about an hour and change
uh on the uh the malvesti field event
hope