Saturday, May 9, 2009

Looking for more coverage of the competition?

The Bayonet and BenningTV are uploading stories, photo and video on the Army homepage. Check it out at www.army.mil.
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer ran a story about the competition on the front page of today's edition. The Ledger is also running extensive coverage online with still photos and video. Their website is www.ledger-enquirer.com.
The local TV news can be followed at www.wtvm.com, www.wrbl.com and www.wltz.com.
What will tomorrow bring? The teams still standing tomorrow morning will assemble at the Ranger demonstration area on Hurley Hill in Harmony Church. For starters they will go through the water confidence test...a log walk 30 feet above the water, then make their way over a rope to a Ranger tab. Once they touch the tab the competitors will hang from the rope and drop into the pond. After getting out of the pond, each competitor will make their way over to a tower on the edge of the pond, climb to the platform at the top, grab hold of a pulley and slide down to the water. They don't call it a zipline for nothing.
As each team completes the water confidence test, Blackhawk helicopters will take them to the boat dock at Rotary Park where they will don safety vests, grab paddles and canoe back to Fort Benning.
The teams will line up together for the last event of the competition, a buddy run to Freedom Hall at the edge of Fort Benning's Lawson Army Airfield.

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