A former NBA player is a graduate of the Army Ranger School

2nd Lieutenant Plumlee played for Duke University as a cadet of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) in 2015, the year he won his fifth NCAA Championship title. He coached with legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski, also known as K coach, who also served in the army and played for the basketball team. of the army.

Plumlee also posted a picture of her mother putting her newly-earned Ranger tab on her uniform. "No one deserved to pin down my Ranger Tab.Bringing from the NBA to the active duty army and now to the Ranger School, I have to thank my biggest supporter of the transition, my mother," he said. he writes.

Plumlee's two brothers – Mason and Miles Plumlee – also played for Duke and the NBA.

Another Army graduate also made headlines this week: First Lieutenant Chelsey Hibsch, the first Air Force woman to graduate from the School of the Arts. rangers. The Army opened the route to women only in 2015, and even then, it was only on an experimental basis. Of Of the 196 graduates this year, only four were women.

The Pentagon describes the Rangers' School as "the Army's Combat Leadership Course, which teaches students of these guards how to overcome the fatigue, hunger and stress to lead soldiers at the same time." 39, combat operations conducted by small units ".

Students train for 62 days with minimal food and sleep, and learn to work in the woods, mountains and swamps.