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Think you can hack competing as a top CrossFit athlete while on active duty? Former Navy SEAL and top CrossFit athlete Josh Bridges thinks so, too.
Bridges, who while a member of SEAL Team 3 placed second in the 2011 worldwide CrossFit championship, known as the Games, told Military.com that given enough motivation, dedication and a friendly command, an active duty athlete could have what it takes.
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Military retirees and other seniors over age 62 will soon have to pay more — a lot more — for lifetime passes to U.S. National Parks.
The current cost of a lifetime Golden Age pass for any user over 62 years old is $10. That fee will jump to $80 on Aug. 28 as part of legislation passed last year aimed at financing park improvements nationwide. The fee was last increased in 1994.
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It has been almost seven years since Lisa Hallett first hit the pavement to help cope with her grief after her husband, Army Capt. John Hallett, was killed in Afghanistan. Since those emotion-charged runs through the streets of DuPont, Washington, why she runs has not changed. But who she runs with has.
“The early runs were a place of desperate survival,” she said. “My world was chaos, I was overcome with grief, and the act of running empowered me with literally and figuratively moving forward with my life.”
John’s death in Afghanistan in August, 2009, left Hallett alone with two toddler sons and a three-week-old baby who never got to meet her father. Running wasn’t new to Hallett, but running to deal with grief was. When she needed friends by her side, other Army wives whose husbands were also deployed with John’s unit, the 1-17 Infantry Battalion out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, joined her.