Posts Tagged ‘wheelchair basketball’
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The Fantastic Four: Marine Fire Team Takes to the Basketball Court
Not long ago, they were accomplishing the Marine Corps mission in Afghanistan. Now, as fellow wounded warriors, they’re united in a new goal on the basketball court. All four men have lost limbs to improvised [Read more...]
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2012 Warrior Games
Heart of a Warrior For the past three years, wounded, injured and ill service members from the U.S. Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, Special Operations and Marine Corps have gathered to compete in adaptive [Read more...]
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All-Marine Warrior Games Wheelchair Basketball Team
The players on the Marine Corps Wheelchair basketball team for the 2012 Warrior Games maneuver their wheelchairs around the court with ease and agility. They pass, dribble, block, shoot and score, all while maintaining control [Read more...]
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Portraits of a Warrior
It’s not their wounds that unite them, but their warrior spirit. More than 300 Wounded Warrior Marines, veterans and allies came to Camp Pendleton, Calif., to test their mettle at the 2012 Marine Corps Trials. [Read more...]
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Wounded Body Warrior Spirit (Cpl. Josue Barron)
Pride. That’s one thing Cpl. Josue Barron will always have. You can see it as he sinks three-pointers on the basketball court and as he maneuvers his hand-crank bicycle to the front of a race. [Read more...]
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Wounded Body Warrior Spirit (Sgt. Maj. Raymond Mackey)
Sgt. Maj. Raymond Mackey has been in the Marine Corps for 29 years but will be the first to tell you he can still hang with even the youngest Marines on the basketball court. As [Read more...]