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The Regiment is composed of one Special Troops Battalion and three, organizationally identical, rapidly-deployable light infantry special operations battalions with specialized skills that enable them to perform a variety of special operations missions.

These missions include airborne, air assault, and direct action operations, raids, infiltration and exfiltration by air, land or sea in addition to airfield seizure, recovery of personnel and special equipment, and support of general purpose forces ( GPF ).

Each of the Regiment's three line battalions rotates as the " Ranger Ready Force ".

Every battalion of the Regiment is at a constant readiness to deploy and is expected to be able to respond anywhere in the world within 18 hours.