ROTC cadets learn to ’embrace the suck’ for desert marathon

Conner Wood, Editor in Chief

February 27, 2015

  Waking up at dawn to make it to a PT (physical training) test on time, Mercer University ROTC cadets run and sweat, doing as many situps and pushups as their bodies permit in two minutes. There’s a saying in the Army called “embrace the suck,” said Kara Styers, a third-year ROTC c...