Best Ranger Competition, the Army’s Super Bowl, Returns to Fort Benning
Soldiers compete in the 2021 Best Ranger competition at Fort Benning, Georgia, on Friday, April 16, 2021. The three-day contest, considered among the Army s most grueling challenges, returned this year after the coronavirus pandemic forced its cancellations in 2020. (Corey Dickstein/Stars and Stripes)
20 Apr 2021
FORT BENNING, Ga. – For three nearly nonstop days, some of the Army’s most-skilled soldiers overcame a lack of sleep to tough out brutal obstacle courses, miles-long runs and marches, and weapons and tactics challenges as they moved some 75 miles across Fort Benning for a chance at the title of Best Ranger.
By COREY DICKSTEIN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 19, 2021 FORT BENNING, Ga. – For three nearly nonstop days, some of the Army’s most-skilled soldiers overcame a lack of sleep to tough out brutal obstacle courses, miles-long runs and marches, and weapons and tactics challenges as they moved some 75 miles across Fort Benning for a chance at the title of Best Ranger. The grueling contest, which tests 52 teams of Ranger School graduates on a wide-range of skills, returned to the Army post in Georgia last week after a rare cancelation in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic stopped nearly all military movement last spring. In the end, a team of first lieutenants from Fort Benning’s own 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment walked away the winners of the 37th annual Best Ranger Competition.