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The school is located on 77 acres (310,000 m 2) of CAP corporate property Kempton, Pennsylvania.The school is on the side of the Blue Mountains, approximately a mile south of the Hawk Mountain Bird Sanctuary. [3]
Hawk Mountain may refer to: Hawk Mountain, mountain in Pennsylvania; Hawk Mountain Ranger School, a Civil Air Patrol search and rescue training activity; Hawk Mountain (Alberta), a mountain in Alberta; Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, bird of prey refuge in Pennsylvania
Hawk Mountain is a mountain ridge, part of the Blue Mountain Ridge in the Appalachian Mountain chain, located in central-eastern Pennsylvania near Reading and Allentown. The area includes 13,000 acres (5,300 ha) of protected private and public land, including the 2,600-acre (1,100 ha) Hawk Mountain Sanctuary .
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The Hawk Mountain Council serves over 8,000 young men and women in one of several Boy Scout programs in Berks, Schuylkill, and Carbon counties in Pennsylvania. The council has headquarters near Reading, Pennsylvania. The Council was formed in 1970 with the merger of the Appalachian Trail and Daniel Boone councils. [1]
The United States Army Rangers are elite U.S. Army personnel who have served in any unit which has held the official designation of "Ranger". [1] [2] The term is commonly used to include graduates of the Ranger School, even if they have never served in a "Ranger" unit; the vast majority of Ranger school graduates never serve in Ranger units and are considered "Ranger qualified".
In the period prior to 1980, the Ranger School attrition rate was over 65%. 64% of Ranger School class 10–80 graduated. [25] The graduation rate has dropped below 50% in recent years: 52% in 2005, 54% in 2006, 56% in 2007, 49% in 2008, 46% in 2009, 43% in 2010, and 42% in 2011.
I don't think this is a significant element of the school's history and have removed the section rather than fixing it. -- John of Reading ( talk ) 09:25, 11 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] Katrina [ edit ]