![]() In fact, our country depended on this vein of strenuous labor as the backbone for the greater good of structuring our nation’s economy and the growth of our ideology as Americans. To look into this lifestyle is to gain a porthole view of an older version of America, although certainly imperfect (as any time in our world history has been), a more honest time where a man’s word was his bond, sweat-soaked toil was the goal, and putting food on the table for your family was the driving necessity. You see, to know the life of a logger is to know the broader vision of ardor, struggle, grit, and determination with no illusions of grandeur or glory. His path and pursuit in the humble Northern Idaho forests as the son of a logger is what established that foundation even before he was afforded his birthright. Suffice it to say, Evan Hafer was already prepared for this journey long before Selection even began. The culture of our Special Forces is a hardened, spartan environment where the work is expected to be done at an elite level without praise or gratitude. ![]() ![]() It may be for country, the brotherhood, some more intrinsic, ancestral belief, but it’s almost always rooted in a constant desire to better oneself. He goes where others will not in the altruistic service of something greater than himself. There is a man who strikes out on his own path and finds a certain calm in the layers of darkness that exist in our entropic world. “The quiet professional.” A term used in the broad spectrum of our Special Operations and, more specifically, the Green Berets.
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