Founder & CEO, GORUCK
Past: 10th Special Forces Group
Sapa Valley Northern Vietnam, along the Chinese border April 6, 2018 “Hey Paul, why’d you quit?” I asked. “What the hell are you talking about,” he said. “You went part of the way out, then you turned around and came back, that’s quitting.” Rich was already grinning, he knew exactly where this was going, this …
The inspiration for MACV-1 was the most beloved boot in Special Forces history, the Vietnam-era Jungle Boot. That boot solved a lot of problems for the guys back then; namely, it breathed more, it drained faster, and the “Panama sole” was better at dispersing the mud than its predecessors. Its downside when you pick it …
Maison Centrale, Hanoi, Vietnam Aka “The Hanoi Hilton” Sunday, April 8, 2018 I could feel Rich going back in time – planning how his MACV-SOG team could rescue the POW’s trapped behind these walls some 45 years ago. The approach was beautiful. Wide sidewalks around a lake with a floating ancient temple, past a white …
A simple black boot, comfortable in any and every environment imaginable. It’s so simple it took us four years to get right. One boot. This is the tale of the details to the details, the why’s — all of which began from the well earned tribal knowledge of boots that’s passed down from generation to …
It felt like Fight Club. 700 of us in teams of 2-5 underneath a freeway in Georgetown at 9pm on a Friday night. Rucks and 20 Lb. Ruck Plates and Body Glide and an infinite echo of energy bars in crinkly plastic moving toward the sound of the bull horn. Start lines are always fun …
I was at Green Beret Foundation HQ in San Antonio in the great state of Texas for a Board of Directors meeting and got to sit down with Jen Paquette, who runs the Foundation. We go way back to 2010 when neither of our organizations had anything but a dream to create something that did …
