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.
trade union - an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; you have to join the union in order to get a job. labor union, trades union, union, brotherhood. organization, organisation - a group of people who work together. industrial union, vertical union - a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft. craft union - a labor union whose membership is restricted to workers in a particular craft.