More than 3,500 paratroopers laced up for a brigade run at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
At the crack of dawn Friday, servicemen and servicewomen with 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry ran in a five-mile trek.
The soldiers kept a nine minute a mile pace, which happens to be a quarterly requirement to maintain the fitness levels that are expected out of a paratrooper.
The run coincided with Sparta week, which began on Wednesday and ends on Saturday, and builds esprit-de-corps among troops and families.
Contact Neil Torquiano