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. 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.