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Swift, Silent, and Deadly: The Story of Marine Corps Reconnaissance

Source Into the Surf: Okinawa, 1945 The paddles rose and fell in silence. A team of Reconnaissance Marines hunched low in the rubber boat, their shoulders burning as they inched through the black Pacific night. No one spoke. Salt spray...

mental toughness · military · stories

Always Out Front: The Story of the U.S. Army Rangers

An Impossible Climb, and the Birth of the Modern Ranger -By Byron OwenThe surf crashed hard against the Normandy coast as the landing craft pitched in the dark. Rain mixed with salt spray. A few soldiers heaved over the rails,...

stories

This 76 Year Old MTNTOUGH Athlete Is Still "Staying Dangerous"

Local MTNTOUGH'er, Rick "Barbwire" is almost always the oldest snowboarder on the hill. But the 76-year-old doesn’t just out shred most youngsters—he's a cancer survivor, training through his 35 rounds of chemo & radiation and today continues to train 5-7 days per week. Rick explains "Mind over matter is the key thing...there are things you can push yourself on...you can’t quit."

stories

The MTNTOUGH Always Ready Philosophy

But what I’ve come to believe is: the people that survived were ready. They were just plain ready to get away from that giant wave in those 240 seconds. In a moment of unforeseen tragedy… one of the deadliest natural disasters of our time, they had the physical ability…awareness... and mental toughness… to save their own lives that day.