Sapa Valley Northern Vietnam, along the Chinese border April 6, 2018 “Hey Paul, why’d you quit?” I asked. “What the hell are you talking about,” he said. “You went part of the way out, then you turned around and came back, that’s quitting.” Rich was already grinning, he knew exactly where this was going, this …
Maison Centrale, Hanoi, Vietnam Aka “The Hanoi Hilton” Sunday, April 8, 2018 I could feel Rich going back in time – planning how his MACV-SOG team could rescue the POW’s trapped behind these walls some 45 years ago. The approach was beautiful. Wide sidewalks around a lake with a floating ancient temple, past a white …
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. …
Paul Litchfield 30 Year Shoe Dog, and inventor of the Reebok Pump Senior Director, GORUCK Footwear One Friday in 2014, my flight from halfway around the world landed in Boston, I went through customs, got in my car and drove straight to the start point of my first GORUCK Challenge in Worcester. My friends had …
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 …
I train like a HULK. I eat like a HULK. I ruck like a HULK. I live like a HULK, every day. I’m 6”3 250 before I feed the house and wash it down with a few beers and I don’t want my pants crowding my junk, ever. I hate that. My neighbor’s a skinny …
