“Sacrificing personal comforts and dedicating myself to the completion of the mission shall be my life.” Minutes from endex and the successful recitation of this quote from the Recon Creed is the only thing standing in the way of Doug aka 011 and his GORUCK Selection patch. Selection wasn’t ever going to end until …
Happy Thanksgiving, Celebrate Like You Just Finished Selection 48+ hours of Welcome Parties and Good-Bye Parties and Sandbag Movers and Devil’s Miles and when the human spirit is still alive, it’s a good day. “Roster 035, Congratulations on completing GORUCK Selection, the toughest endurance event in the world.” And I got a little choked up …
And then there was one. I learned early on in my Army days that you can’t stop Father Time. Just keep your head focused on the task at hand while the sand flows south, and embrace whatever comes at you. It’s their game, their rules, and you’re playing by them. Which pretty much sums up …
SELECTION 018 – PART 2 The quiet passes and the storm is here. The dubiously named Good-Bye Party at GORUCK Selection is 4 hours. Not a minute less, not a minute more. It’s loud, it’s intense, it’s stressful. Tonight, it’s a low of 39 degrees. Up the hill down the hill in the water rucks …
BELLBROOK, OHIO, USA HOME BASE OF GORUCK SELECTION 018 Annually, we run an event called GORUCK Selection. It’s the only event that we recommend you NOT sign up for. It’s 48+ hours and it’s patterned after Special Forces Assessment and Selection. The Cadre’s role is to get participants to quit and the pass rate is …
Selection 018 is complete. 48+ hours, 80+ miles in and around the hills of Bellbrook, Ohio, USA. True to our roots, we use our events to test and prove the toughness of our gear. The 50+ LB rucks that participants carried and dragged for days. The 40 LB, 60 LB, and 80 LB sandbags that participants …
