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your brothers and the river becomes your battlefield. Plan your route, be on point, and stick your line. You are counting on your brothers and praying you make it out.
It all sounds good in theory, but just like in a combat zone, the situation can have you scrambling and holding on with everything you got. Counting on your buddies and praying you make it out. There is no greater feeling then coming out of such chaos with some of your closest friends, with your brothers, who without a doubt, become like your family, and overcoming something you didn't think you could. When we're running a huge waterfall, you're like, 'I don't know if I can do this, but I trust these people to do the utmost to make sure I get through it. I'm just going to trust my faith and abilities and work to make sure I was ready for this point.' You do, and you come up and you hit your roll and all your buddies are down there and stoked, and you're still alive. It gives you your life back. You know, you feel that pure rush of being lost in the moment. You're on the kind of high that can't ever be touched.
Talk to enough of my friends and a recurring theme emerges — that I derive a deep satisfaction from helping others. P.T.S.D. is funded primarily with private equity (by a local agriculture farmer by the name of Garn Theobold) while equipment is donated by gear companies. Thanks to that generosity, participants pay nothing for gear or other expenses. I want you to succeed. And once you have fun, if you start out in love with this stuff, it can only grow from there. You can't stay in love with this sitting on the couch. You can't stay in love with it when you're your own worst enemy. But if you step out for even a second, you'll find that love, that passion, again. I think the biggest challenge for young, active Veterans, when they return home, is that they feel like they aren't a part of something anymore. This feeling leaves them wondering what they are
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