The first 3rd ROTC Brigade Gaspers-Cahill Ranger Challenge kicked off Saturday morning, March 17, with the Jared Southworth Fitness Challenge.

The challenge was named for two of the brigade’s 11 alumni who died in combat. Both University of Nebraska graduates, 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers and Capt. Joel E. Cahill, were killed in Iraq.

The challenge named for 1^st Lt. Southworth, an Illinois National Guard, killed with one of his Soldiers February 8, 2009 by an improvised explosive device during road clearing operations near Kabul, Afghanistan. 

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