U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Erich Friedlein, left, comforts his overwhelmed teammate, Capt. Robert Killian, after they finished the three-day Best Ranger Competition in first place at Fort Benning, Georgia, April 17, 2016. DoD photo by Katie Lange
DoD Live: 60 Brutal Hours: How Army’s Top Rangers Decide Who’s Best
If you’ve ever wondered what it would feel like to win a 60-hour competition with nonstop physical challenges, this photo about sums it up.
Most of you have done rucks and runs and obstacle courses during your military careers, but imagine doing 14 of those in a row over three days with practically no rest in between. That’s the Best Ranger Competition – basically an Ironman for U.S. Army Rangers who, like the Navy SEALS and other Special Forces, are some of the military’s toughest. It’s not part of Ranger training, but every competitor I talked to said they’d prepared for a long time, and it’s helped them focus on bettering their weaknesses. - See more at: http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/2016/04/60-brutal-hours-how-armys-top-rangers-decide-whos-best/#sthash.inv9f6u2.dpuf
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WNU Editor: And I thought doing the Marathon was hard.
2 comments:
Very tough business. But when I read of this I think of how you could trace Washington's line of march by the blood in the snow from his men's feet, or the bread made of roots Caesar's men threw over Pompey's entrenchments at Dyrrhachium.
The actual god dam wars of the past will allways be more terrible than any training as it was acceptable to destroy the lives of your men in those awful blood baths but you cant do that too often during traing or even that tough ones will stop showing up
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