The men of Easy Company are accused of cheating on their fitness test. They proceed to break their own record after running it a second time.

>How fit the men of Easy were was determined at Mackall when the Department of the Army had [Strayer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Robert_L_Strayer_506th_PIR.jpg)’s 2d Battalion – already famous for the march to Atlanta – take a standard physical fitness test. The battalion scored 97 percent. As this was the highest score ever recorded for a battalion in the Army, a Colonel Jablonski from Washington thought Strayer had rigged the score. [Winters](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Richard_Winters.jpeg) recalled, “They had us run it a second time, officers, men, service personnel, cooks, everybody – and we scored 98 percent.” _______________________________ **Source:** Ambrose, Stephen Edward. “Stand Up and Hook Up.” *Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest*. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004. 37. Print. _______________________________ **Further Reading:** [Easy Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division / “Screaming Eagles”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Company,_506th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States) [Camp Mackall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Mackall) [Colonel Robert Lytle Strayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Strayer) [Major Richard Davis "Dick" Winters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Winters)