JAPAN
A military personnel and a boy are running.

(Video by Daisuke Sato)

More than 300 students at Arnn Elementary School got to run, jump and crawl like a Soldier during the school’s “Purple Up” Physical Test Day, held recently in celebration of the Month of the Military Child. Soldiers assigned to the 5th Transportation Company at Yokohama North Dock led the more than 300 students in a series of Army-style physical fitness challenges.

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