Meet The First Women Navy SEALs JJ and Olga Rakanova
“The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday,” hung on over the entrance to training in blue and gold letters. JJ had grown up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and was raised by her tough-minded African-American father Henry. He was a former Marine captain who ran a successful plumbing business, smoked a cigar every evening, still kept a high and tight haircut, and loved blues music. Henry had served in Vietnam where he met and fell in love with JJ’s mother, a Vietnamese nurse, who had died suddenly of ALS when JJ was 10. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a group of rare neurological diseases that main...