The long sail of the USS Gerald R. Ford

To have a chance at joining Delta Force, the U.S. military’s most elite special operations unit, tryouts must first complete approximately three weeks of increasingly arduous marches while carrying increasing weight loads. This test phase of the selection course ends with a roughly 40-mile march known in the military as “The Long Walk.” Few are able to meet the watch in completing this arduous test.

The crew of the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier will soon complete their own ‘long sail’ version of the long walk.