Ranger Assessment and Selection Program 1 (RASP 1) History Practice Exam

In this scenario you’re being tested on the specific operation name tied to a Ranger-led mission in Somalia during the 1990s. Operation Gothic Serpent was the targeted special-operations raid in Mogadishu in 1993, carried out by Task Force Ranger to capture senior leaders of the warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid. Army Rangers formed the core assault element, and the mission’s heavy resistance and dramatic events, including the Black Hawk Down incident, cemented Gothic Serpent as the Ranger-associated operation from that era. The other options refer to broader stabilization or different theaters and aren’t the Ranger-led raid most closely linked to Somalia in the 1990s. So the operation connected with Ranger involvement is Gothic Serpent.