AO: UNDERGROUND
QiC: Bogey
Date: 02/21/2023
Title: Fall of Baghdad Tribute Workout
Number of HIMs: 6
Bogey, Fro-Zone, Honker, R-12, Swashbuckler, Tutti Frutti
Number of FNGs: 0
Name of FNGs:
WarmOrama:
Disclaimer. And then some of these movements:
Moroccan night clubs, chinooks, raise the roof, TTT, side to side rotation, dive bombers, slow count squats, tutti stretch, pigeon stretch, runners stretch, hip flexor stretch, shoulder stretch, tricep stretch, Michael Phelps
Tha Thang:
* 2000m (~1.25 Mile) wearing weighted vest
* 34 Rounds (wearing weighted vest)
* 1 Sandbag Cluster (Sandbag Clean + Thruster)
* 3 Merkins
* 5 Mountain Climbers
* 2000m (~1.25 Mile) wearing weighted vest
Weight Vest: 20# / 30# (or whatever you’re comfortable with)
Sandbag Weight: 40# / 60# (or whatever you’re comfortable with)
COT:
Here is the significance of the workout according to the GORUCK Tribe website:
34 Rounds = 34 Killed in Action
1 Sandbag Cluster = USMC 1st Marine Division
3 Ruck Push Ups = US Army 3rd Infantry Division
5 Mountain Climbers = 5 Coalition of Joint Forces and Aircraft involved in the battle
2000m Ruck = infil and exfil distance represents the year and estimated Iraq KIA
From GORUCK: In preparation for the invasion, CIA’s Special Activities Division paramilitary operations officers and 10th Special Forces Group soldiers were the first U.S. forces to enter Iraq as early as July 2002. Their main objective was to force multiply with the friendly Kurdish Peshmerga and battle Ansar al-Islam for control of strategic territory. When Turkey denied official use of its territory, the Coalition made Kuwait and other Persian Gulf nations their primary bases and modified the plan of attack to take place simultaneously from north and south.
The invasion was swift, beginning on March 19, 2003, and led to the collapse of the Iraqi government and military in about three weeks time. As planned, Coalition forces conducted simultaneous air and ground assaults and quickly incapacitated the Iraqi command structure, thus minimizing civilian casualties and damage to infrastructure. Some 44 oil wells were destroyed either by Iraqi explosives or incidental fire, dark streaks of smoke filled the skies.
The destruction of the Saddam Hussein statue in Firdos Square marked the symbolic end of the Battle of Baghdad on April 9, 2003. On May 1, President George W. Bush declared an end to major combat operations and thus began the period of military occupation.
Pledge, pray, and on our way!
