Green Beret

A Community's Tough Love

Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Leukemia, Green Beret, Goruck, Goruck-Challenge, GORUCK Challenge, Childhood Cancer, Special Forces, Impact News
Matt Browner Hamlin

As a relatively new member of the GORUCK Tough community, I've found the willingness of its members to support each other and the causes we believe in to be rewarding in a way I never expected.

Read Post

The GORUCK Challenge: Bringing People Together Under Really Big Logs

Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Fitness, Green Beret, Tough Mudder, Triathlon, Goruck, GORUCK Challenge, Business News
Matt Browner Hamlin

As more and more people turn away from marathons and triathlons to more extreme obstacle races, expect the GORUCK Challenge to keep growing, as individuals seek to test themselves not just as athletes, but as team members and leaders.

Read Post

GORUCK: The Most Passionate Brand Following in the World

Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Backpacks, Green Beret, Small Business, GORUCK Challenge, Made in America, Made in the USA, Veterans, Goruck, Small Business News
Matt Browner Hamlin

Jason McCarthy, a former Green Beret and the founder of the rucksack company GORUCK, says a lot of things that command your attention. But when he speaks about his company's growth in the last year, my ears really pick up.

Read Post

Woman Wears MIA Bracelet For Nearly Four Decades

Vincent Ugaro | Posted 06.02.2011

Read More: James Moreland, Kathy Strong, Missing in Action, MIA Bracelet, Green Beret, Vietnam War, Veterans, Impact News
Vincent Ugaro

Long after most would have given up hope of a homecoming, discarding the bracelet or losing it -- or, at the very least, relegating it to the bottom of a jewelry box -- Ms. Strong persisted.

Read Post

Spinning the War in Afghanistan

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Beret, Vietnam War, Special Envoy, The Only Thing Worth Fighting For, Vietnam, David Halberstam, The New York Times, Neil Sheehan, Diem, Afghanistan, Karzai, Special Forces, World News
Ashley Rindsberg

One has to wonder why after eight years of near-total silence, the media has suddenly, gushingly fallen in love with covering the war in Afghanistan.

Read Post

Street Racing Kills -- Help Me Stop It

Steve Parker | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: LA Times, Green Beret, San Diego, Nitrous Oxide, Bloods, Santa Monica, Gas/Electric Hybrid, Rodney King, Lapd, Otis Chandler, Mayor Tom Bradley, Phoenix, Long Beach Grand Prix, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Hulk Hogan, LA County Sheriff, Nbc, Maryland, National Hot Rod Association, Christmas Trees, Illegal Street Racing, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Crenshaw Boulevard, Orange County, Environment, Big Willie Robinson, Vietnam, Crips, Brotherhood Raceway, Mustang, Ventura, Whipnotic, Nhra, Healthy Living News
Steve Parker

San Diego counts so many bodies and seriously injured people from street racing they say it is at "epidemic" levels and is a public health problem.

Read Post