As of January 2010, the 4-week Ranger Indoctrination Program (RIP) has become RASP (Ranger Assessment and Selection Program) and is now 8 weeks long. There are two separate phases in the RASP program.
Definition of civil union for English Language Learners. : a legal relationship between two people of the same sex that gives them some of the same rights and responsibilities that married people have.
A civil union must be contracted openly before an officiant competent to solemnize marriages and in the presence of two witnesses. The spouses in a civil union have the same rights and obligations. They owe each other respect, fidelity, succour and assistance. They are bound to live together.