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.
union. 1  the act of uniting two or more things. 2  the state of being united. 3  something formed by uniting two or more things; combination. 4  a number of persons, states, etc., joined or associated together for some common purpose: student union; credit union.