With 7 miles to go in our 50 hour endurance suck fest, I collapsed under a tree from exhaustion. Dripping with sweat, carrying my 35 pound ruck, plus a teammate’s 20# plate to give him a break, I sat under a tree waiting for my team to catch up. I had foolishly taken off for …
Sara Wilkinson and GORUCK present the hero workout “CHAD” – in honor of Navy SEAL Chad Wilkinson who took his life on October 29, 2018 due to the effects of numerous deployments, several TBIs, blast wave injuries and PTSD. Our goal is to honor Chad’s life and legacy and to raise awareness for suicide prevention. Last year’s …
GORUCK Selection is an event of highs and lows. Epic struggle and inevitably, triumph. In this event, success looks like a 2×3 patch that only one female and 30 men have earned to date. During the past 7 years I’ve watched 9 men finish GORUCK Selection. They stood in front of the American flag and …
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” -J.R.R. Tolkein, The …
Tribe Kids: Seek Gratitude This month, we seek gratitude and give thanks for the people and places in our lives that make us happy. By telling the people who are most important to us that we appreciate them and that we want them in our lives, we allow them to feel seen and loved. As …
Here is a rundown on all details for November 2021: Preserve I cried a lot, and uncontrollably, when my friend Scott died. The first Sergeant told me to go see the Chaplain, but that was no real help, so I just buried it in my memory and tried not to deal with it. It’s worked …