The Best Ranger is a 59-hour nonstop competition. At the outset of day three, hour 52, the Rangers teams were faced with the Helocast: build a poncho raft, jump from a helicopter 25 feet off the water and swim to shore. These Rangers aren't out of the water yet. Up next, the Water Confidence Course.

TCS, complete a series of three obstacles over water. Climb tower 1 to the log walk 30 feet in the air. If you fall off the obstacle, you're given a second attempt. Fall off twice and you're disqualified. Second obstacle, transition to the rope drive, traverse the rope to the Ranger tab. Tap the tab and drop into the water below. Make your way out of the water, pick up a pulley on your way to the slide for life. When pass the start/finish line, your Ranger buddy can start his turn on the course. Continue on to the third obstacle, a 75-foot tower cable slide. Ascend to the top of the tower, attach your pulley and slide down the cable. At the VS-17 panel marker, drop into the water. Climb out of the water and run to the finish line. The clock will stop when the second Ranger crosses the finish line. The Water Confidence Course is more about overcoming your fears than it is about your swimming abilities.

Until you become a Ranger, you won't truly understand what it means when they say Ranger community to belong, to be a part of something bigger than yourself.

Team 22 Zajkowski and Jenkins are digging deep for every ounce of energy they have left. With only two events to go, time is short, and so are points. With the top five teams within 200 points of each other, anything can still happen. Even though the Water Confidence Course configurations change each year, and there's really no way to keep records, it's belief that Jenkins' and Zajkowski time is unofficially a new record. Stackpole and Simms, seeing the time that they have to beat, are most concerned with not beating themselves.

Team 21, Stackpole and Simms, both know they hold their own destiny in their own two hands. As they push hard across all three obstacles they know it will be nearly impossible to beat Jenkins and Zajkowski?s record time. But to maintain their slim lead over Team 22, they can't do worse than second or risk giving up the lead with only two events left to go. Stackpole and Simms didn't beat Zajkowski and Jenkins' record time, but scored the second fastest time on the Water Confidence Course and enough points to hold off Team 22.

98 Rangers started the event with a Buddy Run; in the 59th and final hour of the 2009 Best Ranger Competition, the remaining Rangers will once again reach deep within themselves one last time. The final event: 3.5-Miles to Ranger glory.