Ranger School, I thought, was a little more physically challenging, just because you start to,

you see cumulative effects in your body that you don't see at Sabre school.

You just, you get tired and it affects you, you know, for a long time.

You're talking 62 days of not very much sleep.

And then also the effects of not getting the proper nutrition that you need over that long period of time.

You know, your body stops healing, like your nails stop growing.

One of the reasons other than just challenging myself that I went to Ranger School was because I'm going to come back and teach at west point and I want to be

the best mentor I can be to cadets hi and welcome back to another edition of the modern war

institute podcast in today's episode we hear from captain natalie maloo recently she and a fellow

army officer became just the sixth and seventh women to complete Ranger school.

Captain Maloo took some time to talk to MWI about her experience,

about what it means to her to be one amongst a small number of women to have earned the Ranger tab,

and to give some advice to others who will attend the course in the future.

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All right, let's get to the conversation.

Captain Maloo, thanks for being here.

I want to talk a little bit about your Ranger School experience.

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