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May 26

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There will be no rest until the job is done⁠.
-Brian Silva⁠
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One of the hardest lessons for me to keep reteaching myself is that there is no end to the job we have to do. Life is a series of never-ending challenges, the manner in which we face

Reaching the top of the mountain serves the purpose of finding the next one.
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If you are just starting out on your journey, it may seem daunting to look ahead at the the next 2.5 years of your life and imagine all the hardships you will have to fa

Everything becomes worse if we don't do our best.⁠
-Brian Silva⁠
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Each year we are on this earth we take with us the lessons we have learned whether they be physical, mental, monetary, or relationship related. We become better at our craft and l

Failure is only the potential for growth⁠.
- Brian Silva⁠
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Every person you see in this picture trained their ass off to come to this event and they are in great shape yet they are struggling to put their arms straight out.⁠
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When I plan out train

Pay attention to what life throws at you, it's probably something you asked for. - Brian Silva

As I was training to go through selection I had one thing on my mind, I was going to make it no matter what the cost. I was going to make it because I kne

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every single person who is on a special operations team, on the front lines, must go through some time of selection process. It may seem unnecessary to some,

The anticipation of pain is almost always worse than the pain itself.
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Going through the Pararescue Indoctrination course I remember feeling the anticipation from the minute I went to the recruiters office and told them I wanted to be a PJ. My rec

No one cares about how much it hurts, and no one will feel sorry for you
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How do you make yourself push through the pain or suppress that urge to breathe on under water number 6? One of the things that makes people in special operations different

Tell them of us and say,
For their tomorrow,
We gave our today. – The Kohima Epitaph

As we enter into the 4th of July weekend remember this nation was fought for and founded by men who saw their own mortality and realized the significance of t

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Victor Frankl
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Life is not going to get easier, ever. No matter how busy or how much you think you have on your plate now, you are the one that put it all on

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