Warrior Games

Warrior Games

The following is the third in a series of blog posts about the 2011 Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, CO by Stephnie Rose, wife of Team Navy/Coast Guard member HM1 Justin Rose. Sometimes, when my husband Justin is telling a …
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The U.S. Olympic Committee is livestreaming the Wheelchair Basketball Finals tonight. The Bronze medal game begins at 8:30 PM ET/6:30 PM MT, and will immediately be followed by the Gold medal game and awards ceremony after. Catch the excitement in …
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Written by April Richie, mother of Team Navy/Coast Guard member Michael Bell. At about 10:30 p.m. on a cold November evening in 2007, I received a phone call that changed my life. My son, Mike, was in the hospital, a …
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  U.S. Marine, Lance Cpl. Chuck Sketch is blind and a double amputee. Given those disabilities, it’s an unusual desire for him to want to ride a bicycle. Yet, the nonprofit organization Ride 2 Recovery helped him make the impossible …
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SFC Justin Minyard, a SERE Instructor at Camp Mackall in North Carolina, came to the Warrior Games to race his custom-built recumbent bicycle at the cycling event on Friday. However, shortly after his arrival in Colorado Springs, a botched assembly …
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