Luke Owen lost 90 pounds to earn the title Marine, all before graduating high school.
On May 21st, he walked across the graduation stage wearing Marine Corps Dress Blues. 🇺🇸
If you want the title bad enough, there’s a price of admission. He paid it.
Semper Fi
Those who gave the full devotion for our freedom. The Lord knows the fight that goes before to save them. May they rest in eternal peace and power, until we meet again.
Meet Kamryn Penny, of Charlotte NC.
In January, he was shot in the back during a robbery, which paralyzed him from the waist down.
Doctors gave him less than a 1% chance of ever walking again in his life.
He just walked across the stage to receive his high school diploma! ❤️
The Special Warfare community is mourning the loss of DEVGRU (SEAL Team 6) Red Squadron operator Rob Roy, who sadly passed away this week.
Master Chief Rob Roy served 25 years in the Navy. He graduated with BUD/S Class 147, which at the time was the third class ever to have no one quit during Hell Week. He spent a total of 21 years in the SEAL Teams, including 10 years at the elite DEVGRU.
Rob appeared on the TV show "Deadliest Warrior," as well as on the cover of a SOCOM video game. He is also the author of the book "The Navy SEAL Art of War: Leadership Lessons from the World's Most Elite Fighting Force."
Rest easy Rob 🔱
I was hit with the news yesterday that my first Navy mentor, Rob Roy, passed away.
Rob served 26 years in the Navy, including 20 years in the SEAL Teams. He served with DEVGRU on the East Coast and with Teams on the West Coast.
When I was going through the screening process for BUD/S, Rob was in charge of the program. After I passed and received orders, he took me under his wing and spent countless weekends helping me prepare for training.
After I left the Navy in 2016, Rob gave me a side gig training civilians who had earned SEAL contracts and were preparing for BUD/S.
Yesterday morning, Rob was experiencing chest pains, so he drove himself to Naval Medical Center San Diego, and passed away from a heart attack at the gate.
Rob had a tremendous impact on my life and on the lives of many others he mentored over the years.
Till we meet again, brother.
#LLTB
Nicholas Irving, known across the Ranger battalions as “The Reaper,” was one of the deadliest snipers the U.S. Army ever produced.
Through the glass of his SR-25 rifle, lovingly nicknamed “Dirty Diana”, he ended insurgent after insurgent with cold, surgical precision. In a single deployment he racked up dozens of confirmed kills, a number that climbed faster than most snipers manage in an entire career. To the men on the ground with him, he was a guardian angel perched on a rooftop & to the enemy, he was a ghost they never saw coming.
But every trigger pull left a mark that bullets never could. The faces stayed with him. The sounds replayed on loop. When he finally came home, the war didn’t end. It just changed battlefields. Nightmares, rage, alcohol & suicidal thoughts. He fought them all and battled to hold his own life together.
Then, in 2016, his son was born.
That tiny heartbeat gave him something the battlefield never did. A reason that outweighed the pain. He got sober. He started talking, really talking about what he’d seen & what it had done to him. He wrote books, spoke to veterans, mentored younger troops carrying the same invisible wounds. He turned the same relentless focus that once tracked targets across Iraqi rooftops into rebuilding himself, one day at a time.
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