Six Texas A&M University students completed a cumulative 1,000 mile fundraising ruck march Wednesday afternoon.Â
The journey that took the men from Zion National Park in south central Utah to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, was to raise money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. It was the fourth year that members of the A&M Corps of Cadets Company H-1 joined to be part of âProject Atlas.âÂ
The journey is known as a ruck march because the team members wore rucksacks, which the teamâs itinerary says were usually filled with extra layers of clothing, food and water.Â
The groupâs original goal was to raise $16,000 for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which provides financial assistance for scholarships and educational counseling to the surviving children of Special Operations personnel who died in the line of duty.