 It's only really the start of the journey, the pain that you go through before you know you're ready to deploy. A lot of people see the combat fitness test as one of the harder tests because of the intensity of the test. You have two minutes and 40 seconds to run at half a mile, two minutes to lift and 30 pound ammunition can 106 times. In the obstacle course that includes low crawls, buddy carries, ammunition can runs, and a grenade toss. All of which you have to complete in two minutes and seven seconds. You step off that start line, you got to get your head in the game. During those six minutes of pain, you got to give it everything you got. Your back hurts, your feet hurts, you gasped me for air. But you just got to keep going. You step out the step, everything feels flat dead. You're dragging your body to the core. The only thing that keeps you going is you want the end goal more than you want to stop. I envy what my friends have. The easy lifestyle. But when you compare what you're doing, I don't regret it at all.