I’m Chad Belger and I’ve been an alcoholic since I was 13 years old. I’ve spent the majority of my life not giving a shit if I lived or died. One night about 4 years ago I had a bottle of pills in my hand and enough booze already in my system to make sure …
“Who am I supposed to be?” This was what rolled around in my mind in the days and weeks following my husband’s suicide. Looking back, I can see how when everything you thought to be true is taken away it seems only right you have an overshadowing need to question everything. Largely yourself. As time …
Here at GORUCK, we knew we wanted to do something special to Honor the Fallen of those on 9/11/2001, and commemorate the 20th anniversary of this historic day in American history. This past weekend, of 9/11/2021, across the country people not only saw us putting in the work, but HEARD us chanting for the fallen …
August 15, 2021 “My dear sister Jaala, it isn’t that the Taliban are getting close to Kabul. The truth is, we are surrounded. Ghani [the President] has fled the country and abandoned us. We are trapped and cannot flee. There is no hope.” This is the beginning of a voice message I received from my …
The news coming out of Afghanistan has felt like a gut punch to us at GORUCK. We know so many of our GORUCK community can relate – many who have served and others who have had loved ones who gave so much during the last two decades of the Global War On Terror. We were …
I remember how I felt on 9/11/2001, as I watched in horror as the twin towers burned and collapsed. I remember wanting revenge. Plain and simple I wanted to bring justice to those responsible for such evil and cowardly acts of terror. Then, a short time later, on the ground in Afghanistan, we were …