Just like a home gym, your workouts can be simple. No need to overcomplicate a ruck and sandbag workout – that’s the whole point of our gear is that it’s a multi-use tool in one. Special Forces has been been training with minimal equipment and reaching the tip of human performance since forever. It’s not …
OPINION: GORUCK DESERVES THE CREDIT JUNE 9, 2020 There is perhaps no topic more polarizing in the soft goods and carry world than a discussion of GORUCK’s climb (in the span of less than a decade) to the upper boundaries of the backpack market. The strip of Pouch Attachment Ladder System webbing found on most versions, …
There’s a reason why the Rangers, the Green Berets, and many other Special Operations Units use unknown distance ruck marches to assess candidates during selection and build grit during training. The ruck is often called “the ultimate equalizer”. It can make a 250lbs linebacker fall by the wayside while a 140lbs teenager drives on. The …
In times of uncertainty, fear and stress we tend to revert to our roots, base learnings and heritage. And that is where these vignettes fall. As I look back over them, I think of the parallels between my military deployments in the past and what we’re facing as a nation now. In the military, when …
Any time in life that you do something, you tend to forget the bad and remember the good. I remembered the good. I wasn’t sure I wanted to remember the bad. For a long time, I talked to a bunch of my peers in the Special Forces community that had made the trip back to …
Sapa Valley, Northern Vietnam The final stop in Rich’s journey through Vietnam. Sapa is a frontier township along the Chinese border, home to the northern highlanders and hundreds of miles of trails. It’s the perfect place to field test MACV-1 prototypes. Sapa is considered the trekking capitol of Vietnam and we all know trekking is …