The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Issue date: 3/27/09 Section: News

Media Credit: Aaron Montoya Dillon Shaffer, a freshman undeclared major, takes a swig of water during a 17 mile practice ruck March 8. The team is encouraged to keep small portions of food and water with them during the marathon-distance competiton in the New Mexico desert.

As the sun rises Sunday mornings on the sleeping town of Fort Collins, six members of the CSU Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps and eight from Army ROTC tie up their boot laces, pull on 45-pound backpacks and head off on a 10 to 22-mile trek across the still-frosted landscape.

These 14 repeat this action every Sunday as part of their training for the 26.2-mile Bataan Death March they will be participating in this Sunday in White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. in honor of thousands of World War II heroes.

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