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.
1 A union is an organization established by and for workers to pursue collective workplace goals: wages, benefits, work rules, power. 2  Unions arose after the Civil War as one response to modern industrial economy. 3  Unions grew rapidly from 1930s-50s, shrank from 1960s-present.