Posted on 05/28/2015 8:46:27 AM PDT by PROCON
Sent into combat zones 11 times, Brian O’Rourke now will be battling for veterans’ well-being.
A week that Americans started by remembering those who gave all in our country’s service is a fitting time for Special Operations Chief Brian O’Rourke to retire from the Navy. He has been a SEAL for two decades, the last nine years with the elite Naval Special Warfare Development Group—“DevGru,” commonly called SEAL Team Six.
It has been a remarkable journey for Mr. O’Rourke, who entered the Naval Academy in 1990, bent on becoming a SEAL. Counselors suggested he switch to a less demanding major than physics, but Mr. O’Rourke has the constructive stubbornness that often defines SEALs.
Dismissed at the start of his junior year because his GPA was too low, he enlisted in 1995 and passed that most strenuous of military tests—Basic Underwater Demolition or “Buds.” Only a fraction of applicants are able to complete it. Brian joined SEAL Team Two in 1997, then SEAL Team Four before being sent to DevGru in 2004.
SEALs are men of enormous tenacity, skill and character. What is average for them strikes the rest of us as extraordinary and helps explain why each squadron becomes a band of warrior brothers.
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Great tribute.
Ping.
Hooyah Chief O’Rourke!!
Active Duty/Retiree ping.
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