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.
Dictionary entry overview: What does Union mean? â¢ UNION (noun) The noun UNION has 11 senses: 1. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer 2. the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War) 3. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes 4. the state of being joined or united or linked