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5 Temporary Duty Station Watering Holes That Won't Make You Consider Penicillin The Next Morning

Hopefully, you're past the phase where when you go TDY you run to the PX and spend all of your per diem on Silver Bullets, Red Bull and ramen. The next stage, of course, is craft beers outside the ...

Running In Pursuit Of Being A Better Man

Life has taught me that there are always those members of a population that can’t follow simple rules. Here’s where our extra thirty pounds, five inches, and fifty percent more physical strength c...

Quitting: The Quitters Translation Guide

As a military veteran and endurance athlete, I have heard a lot of reasons to quit over my lifetime. After a while they all become background noise and are often just variations of ones I have he...

Quitting: Why Are Members of Special Operation Forces Good at Not Quitting?

Growing up I often look at Special Operations Forces (SOF) as larger than life characters capable of doing the impossible.  The never quit despite the harshest of conditions.  The question I had gr...

Quitting: The Loudest are often the Biggest Quitters

 There is something I have realized over the course of my endurance career and time spent in the military, it is those that are the most vocal about not quitting are often some of the earliest to l...