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Through the Grinder

By Eddie Matz

Monday, November 10, 2008

It's a perfect September night in upstate New York. West Point, to be exact. Not too hot, not too cold. No humidity to speak of. As the chirping of crickets echoes through a wooded hillside, Dominic Moore and eight other Rangers stand silent in a clearing. Then a whistle blows and the tranquillity ends. In the darkness, Moore's posse begins to push a camouflage-color Hummer 437 yards up a 45° incline. It's a gauntlet through which several hundred Army cadets have passed over the past four years, ...

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