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Mark , set , go . Today we

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did the uh the World War II ground

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forces PT test . I uh I was originally

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gonna grade , but then we had an extra

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slot , so I jumped in , wanted to do it ,

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wanted to participate . Um , and it was

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real , real fun , really great event .

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I think it was really cool to see how

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like the , the REPT test has evolved ,

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um , but it's also just a good , good

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opportunity to , uh , be competitive

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with , with my peers and just get out

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there , you know , with the guys and ,

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and have a good time . Now we're doing

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again it's one . According to the

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competition's officer in charge , 2nd

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Lieutenant Xander Topos , this PT test

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is not . Been conducted at Fort Knox in

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roughly 70 years . The competition

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featured 6 key events push-ups , a 300

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yard run , burpees , a 75 yard

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piggyback , a 70 yard zigzag , and a

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culminating 4 mile march . Each event

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was graded individually based on reps

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or time , and according to Topos , many

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embraced the challenge . For the 4 mile

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ruck , the max time was . 40 minutes ,

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which is blazing through push ups , if

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you got over 32 , you'd hit max , but a

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lot of these guys here , they just went

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for as many as we could , so we saw up

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to 50 and 60 . The max for the burpees

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was 12 . It sounds easy , but you have

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to do it in 20 seconds and it's not

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like the burpees we do now . There's no

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push up . There's no jump , and people

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thought it was really easy , but they

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were coming up at 10 or 11 and then the

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time would stop so that event proved to

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be the hardest one for these people

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here . Um , I have a little bit of

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background as a runner , so the , the

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300 yard run went really well . The

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ruck went real well , um , but , uh ,

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some of the other events , you know ,

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it was a little hard , specifically the

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burpees just because I was expecting to

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do the push up and the jump , the whole ,

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the whole ordeal , but it was a little

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bit . And it's a smoke sash for sure .

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On paper it looks like it's going to be

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easier than it really is . Um , those

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events , they go by real fast and and

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all of a sudden you're , you know , 3

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miles deep into into a ruck and your

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legs are hurting . So definitely be

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physically ready and mentally ready to

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push the whole way .