Media Cover Zimmerman Fitness Challenge
The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the 2015 1st Lieutenant James R. Zimmerman Memorial Fitness Challenge at the University of Maine. The event, hosted by the UMaine Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC), was established in 2011 to honor and remember Zimmerman, a 2008 UMaine graduate from Presque Isle, who was killed in action in November 2010 while in combat during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. More than 40 teams of four competed in a variety of physical activities including pack runs, pull ups and a crawl through a mud pit on the course through campus as well as surrounding fields and trails. “This is very special today; to have him remembered,” Zimmerman’s mother Jane told WVII.