The 13th annual event, known as the Marine Corps Trials, is expected to draw more than 200 injured Marines, sailors, veterans and international competitors from Colombia, Estonia, France, Georgia, Italy, Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Marine overcomes illness, brain surgery to compete in regional athletic trials
CAMP LEJEUNE (WLOS) The regional Marine Corps trials aboard Camp Lejeune are held at Wounded Warrior Battalion-East, where wounded, ill, and injured marines and sailors are battling it out in a number of athletic events for a chance to compete in the department of defense warrior games.
Corporal Duncan Rutherford was one of seven competitors in the rowing competition.
“It’s an opportunity that I couldn’t pass up,” he said, “To me, it’s an opportunity to show the progress I’ve made in my own personal recovery as well as to represent the battalion and the detachment in their support of my recovery.“