Just wandering around what the Annual Madness is and why I host it.

I had a truly unique and remarkable experience with a cadre of peers while an instructor at the Infantry Officer Course. I was surrounded by the best of the best at our craft and pressed everyday to be better than my best. Somehow somewhere an unspoken something something developed in the way we loved and respected each other. Predicated on experiences and values and a way of professionalism that was never intentionally designed. It was incredible and I look back at those guys and times with tremendous fondness.

The Madness Challenge and manners fo undertaking it are my attempt to recreate some sort of that and try to share it in a certain way with others. At a minimum, it helps me attempt to hold myself accountable to those same energies that drove me at my best then; in the absence of having each other at one's side today.

Semper Fi