“I’ll lug my own, much lighter rucksack alongside the students, over mountains and through swamps, as I experience what I believe is the first opportunity for a journalist to embed with a class all the way, observing every aspect of their training.” Will Bardenwerper embeds at an Army Ranger School That’s a Laboratory of Human Endurance. (The journalist who got to embed at a tater tot factory is probably laughing his ass off…)

+ This swimmer training sans pool is demonstrating some pretty decent core strength.