For a lot of years I’ve listened to my friends and the people I served with talk about their trips back to Vietnam. It was interesting to hear, but I was never prepared to spend the time or effort to do so myself. Most importantly, I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to go back. …
Tag: Military
MACV-1 Features Explained
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 …
Rucking the Grand Canyon
If we couldn’t make this trip happen, then why in the hell did we fight in the first place? Though almost everything in our lives has changed since we took off the military uniform, our reasons for fighting will always remain the same – our country and our friends. Ask just about any combat veteran …
026: The GORUCK Show – Green Beret Foundation & Jen Paquette
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 …
Service First Story 003: A Dog Named Leia
Veteran transition issues are a big deal these days. We hear about PTSD and TBI and the effects of war. It’s easy to imagine how some might wonder if all Veterans are damaged goods, or broken, or whether we can recover in the civilian world. There’s plenty of examples to suggest that Veterans are, and …
Special Forces Lessons Learned
At GORUCK, we are firmly committed to two things: Rucking and the Special Forces Way of Life. Every single thing we do must be viewed through those two lenses. You’ve heard a lot from us on Rucking (and you’ll continue to), so I’d like to take a few paragraphs to talk about what we mean …