Oct
03

Hiking Mountains, Gladly, With a Marine Turned Fund Manager

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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. — It was 9 p.m., and about 60 financial executives chattered nervously outside a barrack full of bunk beds at this United States Army training post in central Pennsylvania.

They had come from New York, Toronto, Philadelphia and beyond at the behest of Wesley R. Gray, an investment manager and former Marine Corps officer, to trek 28 miles through the mountains. The truly motivated would lug 30-pound packs.

“We are here to march for the fallen,” Mr. Gray shouted, describing the next day’s hike as a “haze ex,” Marine jargon for a hazing exercise. He distributed dogtags of troops who had died in battle, ordering that they be worn on the march…

Hiking Mountains, Gladly, With a Marine Turned Fund Manager

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