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Why Doing the Rucksack Flop Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
We post a lot here on SpecialOperations.com that is geared toward the younger troops heading to the Selection courses and later the Qualification courses. I was having a conversation online with a former Delta Force operator, George Hand. If any of you know Geo on social media, he’s a great dude and a talented one. He’s always posting stuff that will make you think, laugh or both. But he said something that jogged my memory. And while I made a joke of it in responding to him, it was a teaching point. Especially for me, so thanks Geo. So, this little story is one of the oldest and time-honored mantras in the military, “Never do the Rucksack Flop.” Breaking that rule in a combat situation will get you dead in a hurry. Doing it during a training activity especially in a school environment will get your ass chewed out and/or written up. Never in a million years in a non-tactical situation would you think it could cost yourself a serious and possibly a fatal injury. And it nearly did. The last thing you’d think about was being attacked by an animal. And yet it happened. But I digress, first a MORE »
