You show up because you want to know if you have what it takes, but you don’t even know what that is. From the outset, you’re on someone else’s terms, playing someone else’s games. You control nothing except your attitude and your gear, so you better master both. This is what I expected going into …
Selection 000: After Action Review (AAR) Cadre: Lou, Chris Don’t Call Him Donnie He Hates That, Patrick, Jason Post Author: Matt Francev, one of eight finishers What can I say that hasn’t been said before? By now everyone has read about the running, the swimming, the sit-ups, the push-ups, the flutter kicks, the constant physical …
Teamwork, leadership, camaraderie, smiles, and a gut-check worthy of Special Operations training. But the beauty of the Challenge is that it’s not about you, it’s about the people by your side, the individuals that become your team. Ruckers have called it an introduction to themselves and a West Point graduate told me it was the …
Class 001 at Beached finned and ran and paddled all over Key West. Necessary to a surreptitious presence included a link up at the friendly Dive School and classes on maritime-based fieldcraft, Robinson Crusoe survival skills, and mission execution. All taught by Special Operations combat divers. The scenario’s conclusion was mission success as teams successfully …
The good and the bad, the love and the loss, the fear of failure and the people I would do anything for till my dying breath. My war story is all of the above, an epic tragedy with a happy ending, of sorts. But ultimately it’s a tale of optimism, about what people do for …
March 11, 2011, I was in a hotel room in Shanghai watching the aftermath of the tsunami/earthquake that killed thousands in Japan. The Japanese people mourned, and rebuilt, and the world mourned with them, and helped them rebuild. One small and insignificant ramification is that it was the day before my flight was supposed to …
