I’ve always enjoyed sharing adventures as well as local places that you can’t find anywhere else. The Alligator Farm has been around for over 125 years and it’s about 45 minutes from GORUCK HQ. If you’re in the neighborhood, it’s worth the drive down A1A, through downtown St. Augustine, and over the Bridge of Lions …
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Selection Class 000, Part 5: Old Glory and Tears Before Beers, St. Augustine, Florida
2Pac’s All Eyez on Me is kind of what it’s like being a Selection candidate. The Cadre are always watching, no matter where you are, and when they wait, they don’t wait patiently. At this point, we’re 52 hours in. The candidates don’t know what time it is other than that it’s morning on the …
Selection Class 000, Part 4: It Pays to Be a Winner, St. Augustine, Florida
Part team, part you, all the time. Selection is an individual event but never really. The full name of Selection in the Q-Course is Special Forces Assessment and Selection. The Cadre there assess your ability to play well with others. And your classmates make sure you don’t slip through the cracks when the Cadre aren’t …
Selection Class 000, Part 2: Priorities of Work, St. Augustine, Florida
My hope is that everyone who comes to Selection passes Selection. You can expect zero help once it starts, but we owe you more explanation of how to prepare and how to show up ready. In this post you’ll find a lot of lessons learned from Special Operations training as well as some better techniques …
Selection Class 000, Part 1: The Welcome Party, St. Augustine, Florida
You show up because you want to know if you have what it takes, but you don’t even know what that is. From the outset, you’re on someone else’s terms, playing someone else’s games. You control nothing except your attitude and your gear, so you better master both. This is what I expected going into …
Beer’s Other Reward at Cap’s
When in the vicinity of St. Augustine, Cap’s is the place to go for local, north Florida grub like gator tail. It all goes great with beers (what doesn’t), and my advice is drink more faster and get to the men’s room often. Preferably when no one else is using it and you can look …