Ruck Up or Shut Up is THE comprehensive guide to Special Forces Assessment and Selection, the gateway barrier to entry to the US Army Special Forces...the storied Green Berets. This book is more than just a manual to get selected, this book is a prescriptive account of SFAS and a descriptive account of the culture, legend, and lore that surround SFAS.

Not everyone who reads this book will go to SFAS. There is still much to learn within these pages. There are great stories and lessons to be learned for just about anyone. For those who are already in the pipeline for Selection, these pages are a manual for what you can expect at Camp Mackall. For those on the path but not yet committed, you will likely find words of motivation and confirmation that will help you to commit. For those that are searching for something more, know that you have found it.

This is the ultimate program for Special Forces Assessment and Selection prep. Along with Ruck Up Or Shut Up, this guide provides everything needed to face the harshest assessment environment imaginable. SFAS is the ancestral proving grounds of the legendary Green Berets, and it requires aspiring operators to perform at the absolute edges of human performance. Preparation is the key to performance.

Shut Up and Ruck gives candidates inside access to top performance coaches in every assessed domain. Everything from the exercise science behind the big six lifts to the evidence based literature for the best way to build rucking performance. We cover the physiological realities of Zone 2 cardio and speed workouts. We discuss performance nutrition and supplementation, mobility and flexibility, injury prevention and skills building, cognition and resilience, and even the best methods to recover and sleep to support optimum performance. We even program complete daily workouts for a comprehensive 8-month SFAS prep with a custom performance journal to record and track your your data. We leave no stone unturned. No more excuses...

Land Navigation is a life skill. A critical life skill. With the ubiquitous nature of GPS, smartwatches, and phones it’s also a dying art. Learning to read a map, knowing how to plot a route, and understanding the little tasks required to walk through the woods from point A to point B…and to never get lost…will serve you well. This book will teach this skill, and so much more.

Written as a guide for aspiring US Army Special Forces Candidates, this book takes land navigation to the next level. Land navigation is a central skill for Special Forces Assessment and Selection, causing nearly half of all SFAS failures. Land navigation is also critical to every Army commissioning source, most NCOES Schools, many tactical schools, and just plain old fundamental Soldiering skills.

Dr. David Walton is an expert land navigator with over three decades of advanced navigational experience. He is also an expert teacher and skilled writer. He takes the reader through this often dreary topic and explains it in a sensible way, provides practical application advice, applies his signature wit and style, and makes the topic approachable and understandable.

You could read a Field Manual and be presented with correct information. You’ll also cure insomnia. Or you could read Never Get Lost. Learn from a true expert and get the correct information, with a good storyline, and more tips and tricks than any Field Manual could ever provide.