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 union is the joining of two or more things.  Answer  A union is an organized labor association.   As in the union formed by the United States, as in an organized laborâ¦ union, a sexual union also implies more than joining. A union is as much a blending as a joining.