Seven PAX made it out for a humid summer morning to remember the brave souls lost in 2011 during the Afghan war.

WARMUP

Mosey round the parking lot

15x IC SSH

10x IC air squats

10x IC wind mills

20x IC arm circles

20x IC circle arms

20x IC seal claps

20x IC overhead claps

20x Moroccan nightclubs

Mosey to shed to grab a block

THE THANG

As the workout, we did a WOD to remember the 31 US service members lost when an RPG struct a Chinook transport helicopter.

On August 6, 2011, a special ops team began an assault on a Taliban compound in the village of Jaw-e-Mekh Zareen in the Tangi Valley. The firefight at the house went on for at least two hours, and the ground team called in reinforcements. As the Chinook CH-47 transport helicopter (call sign: Extortion 17) carrying 30 U.S. troops, seven Afghan commandos, an Afghan civilian interpreter and a U.S. military dog approached, a Taliban fighter shot down the Chinook with a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) as the helicopter neared its landing zone.

It is was the largest single largest loss of life for U.S. forces during the war in Afghanistan and the greatest Naval Special Warfare since the Normandy Invasion of WWII.

WOD:

PAX split into pairs.

PAX A: did reps to represent 8/6/11

8x block thrusters

6x block rows

11x squat jump over block

PAX B: block carried to the outfield fence using carry of choice

Once PAX B returns; PAX will swap roles.

This continued for 31 minutes to remember the 31 US service members that were lost.

After 31 minutes, we returned the blocks and headed back to the flag.

Mary

Motivator 7..1

20x IC flutter kicks

20x IC LBC

60s Plank

15s side plank

15s switch side plank

To wrap up, we played spin the water bottle (cause we like to keep it weird)

Q would toss/spin a water bottle in the air. Where the bottle landed would point to the PAX that had to answer (in order) one of the 5 core principles.

This repeated 2x for the F3 vision. Wrong answers resulted in 5x man-makers.

All the men did well. It was a really tough WOD in the humidity, but everyone embraced the suck and hopefully are stronger from it. May we never forget those men and women that have and continue to serve to protect our country and world.