2025 Best Ranger Competition Information


The Best Ranger Competition 2025 is the 41st anniversary of this grueling competition, featuring the most elite soldiers of the world, our United States Army RANGERS! The Best Ranger Competition was started in 1982 after Dick Leandri found a way to honor his personal friend, Lieutenant General (R) David E. Grange, Jr.

Leandri wanted to recognize his friend, past director of the Ranger Department and Commanding General of Fort Benning, Georgia, with a perpetual event. He and several other professional businessmen formed Chairborne Rangers, Inc., to help support the initiation of such an event.

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS (COMING SOON)

The competition has evolved over the past forty years from one that was originally created to salute the best two-man “buddy” team in the Ranger Department. Every year the competition is reviewed and tweaked, to what is currently in place for this year, to determine the best two-man team from the entire United States Armed Forces.

The Best Ranger Competition is held on Fort Moore and is open to the public. For more information call 706-544-6451.

The National Ranger Association, Inc. was formed in 1998 and is governed by a board of six. The Association was established to recognize distinguished members in the Ranger community and to promote the values established in the Ranger Creed. The National Ranger Association helps to raise funds to support The Best Ranger Competition, The Ranger Hall of Fame and the Distinguished Member of the Brigade. Contact Trenton Petty at rgrassociation@gmail.com for more information on how you can contribute to The National Ranger Association.