AO: The Ridge
When: 05/16/2024
Number of Pax: 4
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QIC: Blue Gill
Introduction
This was a planned Black Diamond week where we would honor two fallen FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) operators who passed away on May 17, 2013. This was the second of two planned BD workouts of the week. Nothing easy about either one of these beatdowns.
Warm-O-Rama
WOR (Warm-Up):
SSH
Arm Circles
Good Mornings
Windmills
Calf Stretch
The Thang
Just as was done this past Tuesday, today we will honor both of these men. HRT operator Stephen Shaw (call sign HR73) – 73 will be the reps performed. HRT operation Chris Lorek (call sign HR31) will be the total mileage (3.1miles) ran should you finish this beatdown
1.6 mile Indian run
73 Flying Squirrels
73 HR Merkins
73 Walking Lunges (1:1)
73 Air Squats
73 Walking Lunges (1:1)
73 HR Merkins
73 Flying Squirrels
1.5 mile run OYO
Note: The run took us up and over the peak of hill to the pond and then follow the pond to left to blacktop. At the blacktop, we took a left and went over bridge to 2nd fire hydrant and return. The second run was the same path but went to first fire hydrant and returned
Circle of Trust
Read the below passages from a speech delivered by the Director of the FBI (at the time), Robert S. Mueller, May 21,2013
“It has been said that valor is a gift. Those who have it never know for sure until the test comes. And those who have it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
True and unerring valor was a gift given to both Chris and Steve- a gift that was tested time and again, through their commitment to the FBI, to the Hostage Rescue Team, and to the citizens they served.
Chris and Steve chose to be part of a team that assumes the greatest risk as part of their everyday job. A team that says “Yes, We Will,” without any hesitation. And though that kind of motivation—of service over self— even at the greatest cost—-is difficult for someone to comprehend, it is who they were—-and it was in their very DNA, as it is with every member of HRT.
Perhaps the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of an HRT operator is “confidence.” Confidence, in their own abilities…. confidence in their brothers in arms…. confidence in the success of any given mission. How else does one walk into the face of true danger, each and every day?
And when an accident such as this happens, we must take a step back and ask “Why?” Perhaps one HRT operator said it best, “We do it because someone has to do it. We do it because we are the only ones who can. We do it because we want to help those who cannot help themselves.”
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Like each of the individuals on the Hostage Rescue Team, Chris and Steve walked willingly into places most of us would dare not go. They did things that most of us would dare not do. It is what they believed in. It is what they knew they were put on this earth to do,
That is where true valor lies. Writer Ambrose Bierce once defined valor as “a soldierly compound of vanity, duty, and the gambler’s hope. “A worthy definition of the Hostage Rescue Team, absent, of course the word “vanity. “Perhaps a more fitting term is “confidence.” But as to the strongest sense of duty and the gambler’s hope, —Yes. That is HRT.
Valor is not the absence of fear. It is the ability to accept fear, and to forge ahead, without flinching. That is what the members of HRT do each and every day. It is what they have always done. And in spite of the loss of two of their own, it is what they will do tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that.”
Naked Man Moleskin
TaPs were sent out. Not much to say other than this tested the MEN in attendance both physically and mentally. We Get To Do This!!! So appreciative of the PAX in attendance and for the opportunity to do hard shit (shared suffering) with you all.