Capt Mike Rush wrote this to me after completing RKC

Phil,
First of all, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to be a part of this past weekend.  Having 'RKC' at the end of my name is just the foam near the top of the glass.  Everything underneath, the true flavor of it all has been the past 10 months since I was first introduced to the training offered by you at MLSN.  I did appreciate it from the start, but looking back, it's truly a defining moment for me.  I emailed Will and said it was the comparable to hours of combat operations I logged in Ramadi back in 2005-06.  I really thought that would be the most definitive part of my life.  Yeah, I saw and did some weird shit.  Put rounds down range.  Had rockets, bullets, mortars land in my vicinity.  But I trained for combat for years and it was expected of me to react, lead, make decisions and fight.  I volunteered for that and was awarded at the end with medals and ribbons that I can someday show my kids.  I don't talk about it much, and told only one friend about the experience I had overseas.
All of that was my choice.  For reasons still unkown to me it was just something I had to do and the memories are etched in my head. 
This weekend will be right up there with those moments as times I will never forget.  Met some great people and had a great time.  At times I was tired, angry, sore but the overriding feeling was motivation.  I went into it not wanting to let Phil down.  But I finished not wanting to let me down.  This experience was unreal man and I cannot express in words how grateful I am to be exposed to the RKC community let alone passing and becoming an RKC Instructor. 
Phil, I am truly thankful for this and will never forget it.  I think DV8 Fitness was well represented this weekend.

Respectfully,

Mike