to you right afterwards as your reward. you scale a 35-foot tower. you commando crawl along a rope suspended above water. when given the order you drop 35 feet in to the water and swim to shore. now your day is really getting started. this has been the warmup for the afternoon. which is combat water survival. that's when you are completely submerged underwater with all of your gear, including your army boots and your rifle. you need to calmly remove your 35 pounds of equipment while underwater and swim back to shore. if you panic or flail you fail. that's just the start of day one of army ranger school and it keeps going nonstop for at least 60 days after that and only gets more grueling and taxing. throughout this process you get three or four hours of sleep a night, two meals a day. by the time the course is over,