For the second year in a row, Mobile Bay has served as the training ground for a crew of military veterans preparing to row across the Atlantic. On Wednesday, the city showed how enthusiastic it was about the mission.
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A team of veterans is training in Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico for a race of a life time. They’re going to row more than 3,000 miles crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
It’s a clever play on words that illustrates the simple wisdom of the actual phrase “fight or die”. Fight or die. Fight against that which holds you back. Fight against the insecurity or the uncertainty of life or perish. The old Latin proverb made famous by Virgil, “audentis Fortuna iuvat” or “Fortune favors the bold”, reminds us that life is not for the timid as they (the timid) are soon relegated into obscurity and insignificance.
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Wanting to continue serving his country, the Navy veteran has enlisted in a different type of service — bringing awareness to the mental health needs of soldiers. “I’m a veteran that feels I haven’t done enough and wanted to do what I could to help out,” he said. The Talisker Whiskey Rowing Challenge is a 3,000 mile ocean rowing race. Me and my team – all military veterans – were the first group of veterans to row across an ocean. Our boat was 28 feet long and we spent 54 days, 9 hours and 8 minutes crossing the ocean. A Cody man who rowed across the Atlantic Ocean says it’s taking him some time to recover – but the effort was worth it.
Beau Maier, who with three teammates rowed 3000 miles across the Atlantic as part of the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge, finished his monumental feat just a month ago. In an interview with KODI, he says he lost about 40 pounds during the trip, and his body has taken weeks to recover. But Maier says the cause they were supporting during the trip makes the after-effects worthwhile. He and his teammates, all military veterans, have created a non-profit organization called Fight OAR Die, which raises money to address the high rate of suicide among veterans. He says their mission is to help others understand that despite the events that have happened in their lives, they can achieve anything. Anyone wishing to donate to their efforts can do so by going to the website us-vet-row.org. Read Original Article Fifty-four days is how long it took four veterans to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. On the team is an Evansville man. You may have seen our exclusive interviews with Alex Evans before, but you may not recognize him now. Alex Evans before Fight Oar Die cast off the Canary Islands and after landing in the West Indies.
The first team of U.S. military veterans to row across the Atlantic, a team with Alabama ties, triumphantly finished its 3,000-mile voyage Monday afternoon. The team consists of four U.S. Army veterans: Bryant Knight, Alex Evans, Beau Maier and Christopher Kuntz.
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