LT Robert James Kalsu (April 13, 1945 – July 21, 1970) was selected as an Oklahoma Sooner All-American Tackle in 1967. As an eighth-round draft pick of the Buffalo Bills in 1968, he started eight games at Guard and was voted the team’s top rookie in 1968. He began fulfilling his ROTC obligation with the US Army following the ’68 season and started his tour of duty in Vietnam in November of 1969, where he served with Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 11th Artillery, 101st Airborne Division. His MOS was 1193-Field Artillery Unit Commander. LT Bob Kalsu was killed by mortar fire on July 21,1970 at Firebase Ripcord near the Ashau Valley.

When the clock starts, you will do 5 burpees and thrusters the remainder of that minute. Then 5 burpees on the minute every minute. The goal is to get to 100 thrusters. You may decide that you want to rest and not do any thrusters. This is fine, but you must do the burpees at the start of every minute. Ways to scale include reducing the amount of burpees to 2 or 3, plus scaling the weight. The thruster should be moderately heavy (i.e. not easy or light) This is a very mentally tough workout to stick with, but remember that it’s a Hero WOD! Time cap is 35 minutes.

“Kalsu”
For time:
100 thrusters, 135/95#

EMOM 5 burpees

time cap: 35 minutes