2022: Patriot Challenge 10th Anniversary
GallantFew’s Patriot Challenge is a nationwide veteran transition advocacy and community fitness event. Each February, the military community and civilian patriots join together for Patriot Challenge to support and raise funds GallantFew's mission. Patriot Challenge also provides participants the opportunity to help other national and local military and veteran support initiatives.
Patriot Challenge began ten years ago when Army Ranger Cory Smith ran 565 miles from Fort Benning, Georgia, to his home in Indianapolis, Indiana, with the hope of bringing awareness to challenges facing transitioning service members. Moved by Cory's determination to raise awareness, GallantFew established the awareness and fitness event, Run Ranger Run, now called Patriot Challenge. Run Ranger Run (now Patriot Challenge) grew in participants across our great nation for eight consecutive years.
As a salute to our first patriot, Cory, our inaugural Patriot Challenge teams will continue the Run Ranger Run tradition of logging 565 combined activity miles in February 2022!
Run, walk, bike, climb, skate or lift. If you can move, you can be a PATRIOT!
EVERY penny raised during Patriot Challenge directly supports the world-class transition and reintegration services GallantFew provides to our veteran community. Patriot Challenge is the means to our cause: serving our nation's heroes.
