A group of six boys holding a flag.

Six-man Project Atlas Rucks team to depart Texas A&M University’s campus on Dec. 11 for hike through the Colorado mountain

On January 4, 2022, five members of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets began a 1,000 mile “ruck march” across the southwestern United States. The ruck march started in Yosemite National Park in California and will continue east, ending in Arizona. The march will be completed on the cadets’ winter break