US Bobsledder leaves sport for the military
SGT K sends a link to an ESPN article which reports that John Napier, a member of the US bobsled team has told his team that he’s leaving the sport so that he can go back in the military. He says that he hopes to join a special forces unit in the Army or the Navy. The article says that the Schenectady, N.Y. man deployed once to Afghanistan with his Vermont National Guard unit as an infantryman and “saw combat” on that tour.
“After Afghanistan, I had a lot of rational and irrational ideas about sport,” Napier said, according to the Times Union. “I never got the taste of selflessness that I did in Afghanistan. There is not a morning that I don’t wake up and miss it.”
“I don’t want to compete at something just because I was good at something,” he said, according to the Times Union. “That is not where my heart is.”
From the Albany Times Union;
The scales of his two passions — the military and bobsledding — started to tip away from sport. It wasn’t about the rush of conflict; rather, it was the bond in conflict representing your county that no national sports team can replicate.
“It was the camaraderie,” he said.
“There is something itching inside of me,” he said.
To frighten the bejesus out of Joe, Apparently, Napier is an “unashamed Christian“.
Category: Real Soldiers
I guess riding in a Stryker is like bobsledding…. sort of.
Oh God not another Christian joining the military to oppress the non believers. The horror.
HOOAH John Napier, and scrue ya, Joe.
@CI Roller Dude…it depends on how many people you pack into the Stryker…
I’ve never understood why its noble, heroic even, when a Muslim fights for his freedoms and beliefs, and yet when a Christian steps up and does the samething its horrible and vile.
The irony is that I have more respect for our enemies, who strap themselves up with whatever is at hand and hurl themselves into the fight than I do for those Americans who sit back, safe and sound and act holier than thou because men like John believe enough in something to risk their lives.
It makes my head want to explode sometimes.
Yes, leftists heads everywhere will be ‘xplodin’. The more the merrier, I say.
@4 – “I’ve never understood why its noble, heroic even, when a Muslim fights for his freedoms and beliefs, and yet when a Christian steps up and does the samething its horrible and vile.”
Who are these people you’re talking about?
I’d say Mr. Napier “gets it” and the US military is better for it…..
For all those that say we need a draft….SUCK IT!