GORUCK Selection is the Hardest Endurance Event in the World. I don’t really consider it a GORUCK Event and I don’t recommend doing it. I’ve got a love hate turned hate love for it and we were perfectly happy showing you what you’re capable of when you’re part of a team – that’s called the …
The Long Walk By Cadre Jerad Congrats. Perhaps that’s not the right word, considering you’ve only just made it to the hardest part. Maybe “welcome” is more appropriate. Welcome to the most painful, trying, difficult, devastating, enduring, sweetest, fulfilling walk of your life: The Long Walk. This event will measure the strength and endurance of …
Worst Thanksgiving Ever by Cadre Mike What is there to be thankful for while you are deployed? What significance could Thanksgiving hold if you are in a place that is basically the worst place you could be in your entire life? One can grow quite cynical of Thanksgiving if it is associated more with suffering …
In 2011, I showed up to the GORUCK Ascent a little nervous. I had never climbed a 14,000ft mountain. Sure, I had climbed mountains in Afghanistan, but not this high. GORUCK had enough faith in me to lead a group to the summit of Mt. Belfort, and since that day I have been hooked on mountains. I …
“Pain don’t hurt.” – Patrick Swayze, Road House Foot Care By Cadre Garrett My feet first spoke to me in the summer of 1995. I was 12 years old and running track. It was cool to wear Vans back then, but as I found out, it wasn’t cool to wear Vans and run track. I was …
Cadre Dan is a Green Beret and one of our original Cadre. I went to Special Forces Assessment and Selection at Camp Mackall with the mindset that I didn’t give a f**k what the Cadre threw at me. There were only two ways I was going home – on a stretcher as a med drop or escorted …
