Camp Mackall, just outside Fort Bragg, NC, was home of the Airborne in WWII and since 1952 it’s been the soul of Special Forces training. The terrain is perfect for its suck factor: thick pine forests, swamps, tank trails, and over a million square feet of asphalt runways. You will use all of this in training — the even and the uneven terrain. The constant is that you will have increasingly heavy weight on your back, and you will carry it one step at a time. Rucks start at 45 Lbs and max out somewhere closer to 150 Lbs. That plus your bodyweight is what your shoes and your feet have to deal with on every single step.
Support your feet with all you got if you want to pass - the translation here -- make your feet as comfortable as humanly possible when rucking -- this was our mindset in developing and building the MACKALL, a name we did not choose lightly.
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