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the 2009 best ranger

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competition kicked off at 0605 friday

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morning with a buddy run start and it

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was a smoker taking rangers through

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about 4.5 miles of varied terrain

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including woods , hills and swamps and

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to make things worse , the rangers had

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no idea just how much of a smoker .

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Their very first event would be .

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Basically if you don't know the

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distance , you're gonna have to pace

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yourself a different way . If you know

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it's a two mile run , you know that you

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can run harder then you can , if it's a

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five mile run . So if you don't know

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what it is , you're gonna have to

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figure out the pest pace that you can ,

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you can sustain for a long distance .

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But pacing was the name of the game

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because this was an order of movement

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event meaning their rankings will

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determine the way the teams would move

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throughout the day's events coming in .

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First . Team eight Staff Sergeant

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Brandon Farmer and luke McDowell of the

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75th ranger regiment headquartered at

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Fort Benning Georgia . Both have

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finished in the top 10 in previous

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years crossing the finish line . Second

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was Team 22 Master Sergeants WAlt

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Czajkowski and Daniel Jenkins of the U .

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S . Army Special Operations Command ,

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Fort Bragg north Carolina Czajkowski

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and Jenkins have a number of

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competitions under their belt and her

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each previous winners Daniels in 2002

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and Zukovsky in 2007 . Rounding off the

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top three is team 46 B . R . C . First

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timer , Captain Sam Lynn and first

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Sergeant robert carter who was a

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previous competitor . These soldiers

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are from the Fifth striker Brigade ,

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Combat Team Second Infantry Division at

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Fort Lewis Washington Up next is a real

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smoker . The Darby Queen . This pretty

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lady is 1.5 quarter miles long , but

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she's packed with 26 obstacles the

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Rangers have to complete or at least

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make an honest attempt for ago . There

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are quite a few tough obstacles . The

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1st 2nd obstacle they'll come to is

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called the name and it's quite

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difficult . It's one of the only

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obstacle that a lot of people can't

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complete . You have to jump up on a log

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a lot harder than it looks . Then you

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have to get up on top of that From that .

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It's

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such a physical event that even one

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misstep can bring you down still to

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come in the first days events or

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several weapons proficiency ranges and

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orienteering course and an expedient

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litter carry , reporting from Camp

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Darby , Fort Benning Georgia . I'm

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jennifer gun