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More than a year later, McDaniel, a 2006 graduate of Gautier High School, is joining more than 300 other wounded Marines, veterans and allies to compete in the 2012 Marine Corps Trials at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. McDaniel will be competing in wheelchair basketball and trying hand-biking for the first time. Four days later, McDaniel gained consciousness in Germany, missing his legs and a hand. 31, 2010, McDaniel set out on a route clearance patrol as an artilleryman in Kajaki, Afghanistan. While on the patrol, McDaniel identified an improvised explosive device, but before he could notify his squad, it detonated. For many, this would mark the end of an active life, but for McDaniel, it was only the beginning. Q: What motivated you to push yourself physically to compete.Source: Mississippi Press (blog)
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Ned Dolan A Marine is a Marine.   You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life.  There's no such thing as a former Marine.  I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. Marine Major General John F. Kelly We signed up knowing the risk. The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of Marines. Korea, 26 January 1952 The United States Marine Corps, with its fiercely proud tradition of excellence in combat, its hallowed rituals, and its unbending code of honor, is part of the fabric of American myth.  But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico....
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U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Benjamin Schaben with 2nd Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team out of Norfolk, Va., maintains security in a compound during advanced urban combat training at Robertson Barracks, Darwin, Australia, Dec. 1, 2011. FAST Marines are attending Exercise Semper Fast 2011, a...
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Lance Cpl. Valentin Lopez and Lance Cpl. Chandra Goldner collect toy donations in front of Thinker Toys at Del Monte Shopping Center on Nov. 23. Last year 1,000 children in the Monterey area received toys through the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Lance Cpl. Kevin Collins, Cpl. Elysa Vickery, and Cpl. Kara Wilbanks sort through donations already collected during the Presidio Marine Corps' 2011 Toys for Tots drive. Donations will continue to be accepted through Dec. 11 at the following locations:
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Lance Cpl. Valentin Lopez and Lance Cpl. Chandra Goldner collect toy donations in front of Thinker Toys at Del Monte Shopping Center on Nov. 23. Last year 1,000 children in the Monterey area received toys through the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Lance Cpl. Valentin Lopez and Lance Cpl. Chandra Goldner collect toy donations in front of Thinker Toys at Del Monte Shopping Center on Nov. 23. Last year 1,000 children in the Monterey area received toys through the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program.
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