The Ranger Creed
The Ranger Creed is adopted from the creed of the Air Force Pararescuemen that instructed the first Rangers. Ranger School cadets must memorize the creed, and graduates are said to live the creed.
The Ranger Creed is:
My duty as a member of the Rangers of the Civil Air Patrol ground search and rescue service is to save lives, aid the injured, and protect their property. In order to do this, I will keep myself physically fit at all times. I will at all times perform my assigned duties quickly and efficiently, placing these duties before my own personal desires and comfort. These things I do that others may live...
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“The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)