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Marine Corps Marathon Notebook: Challenges

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By on Fitness, Gear, Marines, Sports, Training, Veterans, Wounded warriors

Marine Corps Marathon is exactly one month away. With just a few weeks left to embrace the blisters, multi-hour training runs and insatiable cravings for carbohydrates that accompany marathon prep, my running partner, Jeremy Boutwell, and I have encountered a number of challenges in advance of the race. Last weekend Jeremy and I both missed one of the longest (and arguably one of the most important) training runs on our schedule. I got hit with a sinus infection that kept me in bed for a couple of days and Jeremy wrestled with a fever and increased pain in his lower…

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Marine Corps Marathon Notebook: Half Marathon Success

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By on Fitness, Marines, Sports, Wounded warriors

In preparation for next month’s Marine Corps Marathon, retired Staff Sgt. Jeremy Boutwell and I decided to run the Navy-Air Force half marathon last weekend in Washington, D.C. Jeremy flew in from Texas on Sept. 14 and after a well-balanced meal of spaghetti, Oreos and Gatorade Saturday night, we felt ready to run 13.1 miles. Before crossing the start line, we had a chance to mingle with other Run and Remember teammates who were racing. Several runners, in addition to Jeremy, flew in from out of town. “It was a beautiful morning,” Jeremy said, “Just perfect weather, nice and cool.…

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Marine Corps Marathon Notebook: Sept. 11, 2001

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By on Fitness, Marines, Pentagon, Sports, Training, Washington, Wounded warriors

As we get closer to the marathon, the perks begin to appear: training runs in cooler weather; running sneakers that are comfortably broken in; and an escalating confidence in athletic ability. For me, the idea of running 26.2 miles starts to become palpable in mid-September (a realization that I have to keep up with a Marine is also incentive to stick to my training schedule). For Jeremy Boutwell, my marathon teammate, his long training runs are becoming more comfortable as he continues to train in the Texas heat. Another perk of getting closer to the race is the increased buzz…

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Marine Corps Marathon Notebook: The quest for running shoes

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By on Fitness, Gear, Marines, Sports, Training, Wounded warriors

Walk into any running store and you’re bound to get lost in a sea of neon-colored, fancy-treaded, gel-patterned athletic sneakers. Got flat feet? There’s a shoe for that. Do you overpronate — i.e., does your foot tend to roll toward the inside with each step? There’s a shoe for that, too. Want to channel your inner ultra-athlete? Go barefoot with a glove-like minimalist fit. If you had a chance to pick up this week’s edition of Marine Corps Times, you read about Staff Sgt. Jeremy Boutwell and how we’re running the Marine Corps Marathon together on Oct. 28. Boutwell medically…

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Wounded warrior Marine promoted, 19 months after grenade blast

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By on Afghanistan, Awards, Infantry, Marjah, Wounded warriors

It was Nov. 21, 2010, when Lance Cpls. Kyle Carpenter and Nick Eufrazio were rocked with a grenade blast that changed both of their lives. Nineteen months later, Carpenter’s miraculous recovery continues. Profiled in a Marine Corps Times cover story I wrote late last year, he has continued to heal slowly from life threatening injuries. The blast mangled his jaw, destroyed one of his eyes and most of his teeth and caused severe trauma to his right arm, which had severe tissue damage and more than 30 fractures. Carpenter has been strikingly open about his recovery since, launching a Facebook…

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Video: Canadian grunts tackle PTSD, get help from Marines

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By on Afghanistan, Battle Rattle, Infantry, Marines, Wounded warriors

[HTML1]In this week’s Marine Corps Times, you may have read with disgust the story of a man who lied his way into a circle of trust in Canada by posing as a Marine with PTSD. Behind the story about the unscrupulous faker was the story of the REAL infantryman who became his victim. He is Cpl Chris Dupee, a  GRUNT with eight years in the 3rd Royal Canadian Regiment who actually has PTSD. He is a combat vet and is on a mission to help others deal with it, too. His organization is called Military Minds and his Facebook page…

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Marines at Leatherneck concussion center heal, return to combat

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By on Afghanistan, Camp Leatherneck, Embedded journalism, Infantry, Marines, Safety, Wounded warriors

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — Lance Cpl. Scott Anderson had been in Afghanistan about a month when he was “blown up.” The rifleman with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., was responding to a March 26 firefight as part of a quick reaction force when the six-wheel Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle he was rocked with an improvised explosive device, he said. Anderson shook off the blast in northern Helmand province, jumping into the vehicle’s gun turret to return fire. After the firefight, however, the Marine had lingering concussion symptoms. He was evacuated by helicopter to…

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One-armed warrior will battle in 2012 Warrior Games

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By on Battle Rattle, Competitions, Marines, Wounded warriors

As a kid, like many Marines, Mark O’Brien loved to trek through the woods near his home in upstate New York. He often hunted with his father and brother and his preferred choice of weapon: A hunting bow. Then came Nov. 8, 2004, when then-Cpl. O’Brien was deployed in Ramadi with his rifle squad with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines. An insurgent’s rocket-propelled grenade exploded the Humvee he was riding in, sending shrapnel through his body that severed his right arm and right leg and nearly killed him. His story was featured in the 2005 TV documentary, “Coming Home.”…

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Video: Wounded warrior Kyle Carpenter knocks out pullups

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By on Afghanistan, Marines, Marjah, Wounded warriors

In January, Marine Corps Times profiled Lance Cpl. Kyle Carpenter. The wounded warrior has undergone more than 30 surgeries since sustaining catastrophic injuries in a November 2010 grenade blast near Marjah, Afghanistan, but maintains a strikingly cheerful outlook on life. Most of the quotes in that story from Carpenter came from an interview I did with him at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. He was refreshingly candid about his struggles — and that he had a number of goals left to meet. One of those goals was doing pull-ups again, even after his right arm…

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