The Yellow Brick Road

Getting my Yellow Brick from Section 5's Counselor SA Todd Richards

On 6/6/2017, FBINA Session 268, completed the Yellow Brick Road.  Here's a brief description of the Yellow Brick Road:

National Academy graduates fondly recall their experience on the “Yellow Brick Road.” The final test of the fitness challenge, the Yellow Brick Road is a grueling 6.1-mile run through a hilly, wooded trail built by the Marines. Along the way, the participants must climb over walls, run through creeks, jump through simulated windows, scale rock faces with ropes, crawl under barbed wire in muddy water, maneuver across a cargo net, and more. When (and if) the students complete this difficult test, they receive an actual yellow brick to memorialize their achievement. The course came to be known as the “Yellow Brick Road” years ago, after the Marines placed yellow bricks at various spots to show runners the way through the wooded trail. The overall fitness challenge began at the National Academy in 1981 and has evolved over the years; we started awarding yellow bricks in 1988.

I have to say that the Yellow Brick Road was harder than I expected but it was also the most fun of all the challenges.  It had a little of everything.  Hills, obstacles, road running, and so on.

Waiting to Start the Yellow Brick Road

Getting on the Bus

Acting FBI Director, Andrew McCabe, speaking to us before the Yellow Brick Road

One of he Windows

One of Several Rope Obstacles

and this is what you get what you make it through the Yellow Brick Road:

My yellow brick, there are many like it but this one is mine.

Next up is GRADUATION!!!!