 Allen's AttackCoach Leslie, Sgt. Allen, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1989 when she was 17 and celebrated her 18th birthday in bootcamp at Parris Island, South Carolina.
She served 5 years on active duty and 3 years in the reserve. She was an aircraft firefighting and rescue specialist, AKA Crash Crew. She drove firefighting trucks, rushed into burning aircraft to rescue pilots and crew, filled endless sandbags during the Persian Gulf War (Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield) and spent her final year on active duty at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan where she was meritoriously promoted to Sergeant and summited Mount Fuji. She served in the USMC Reserves at Camp Pendleton, California while she attended Mira Costa Community College from 1994-1997. Today we honor the #bosslady with Allen's Attack 5 Rounds to honor her rank and years on active duty 3 DB Devil (Dog) Thruster 35/20 to honor the unit with which she deployed to Desert Storm, 3rd Marine Air Wing 8 Pull-ups to honor her year of enlistment 9 Box Jumps to honor her year of enlistment 10 Renegade Rows 35/20 to honor her month of enlistment
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 Dehn's DartYou might know him as Coach Kendra's husband, but to everyone in uniform he is Major Dehn, U.S. Air National Guard.
Major Dehn served 20 years and retired in 2021. Major Dehn is a Civil Engineer and likes it when we put away all of our gear in tidy rows and columns. He is served with the 219th Red Horse Squadron and he earned all those ribbons on his chest through 5 tours for the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Today, Dehn's Dart will strike terror in your heart. Dehn's Dart 21:19 Min AMRAP to honor us unit the 219th Red Horse Squadron 4 HSPU to honor his rank O-4 32 Sit-ups to honor his MOS 32E3 20 Wallballs to honor his years in service Every 5 Mins stop and accumulate 1 min of plank hold to honor his 5 tours of duty for the GWOT. WEAR A WEIGHT VEST  33 years ago it was a newsworthy when a woman went to war. These days no one thinks twice about women going to war. I'm proud to be an important part of feminist military history. Monday was Veteran’s Day, our national day of gratitude to those who have served in our country’s military. Veteran’s Day is always bittersweet for me. I appreciate the gratitude of our Nation, and all of my personal friends, family and acquaintances, and yet, I am often sad on Veteran’s Day.
Not long into my enlistment in the US Marines, in the summer of 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Within a few months I found myself, at the tender age of 19, disembarking a transport plane, in the middle of the night, in the middle of the Saudi Arabian dessert. I was immediately issued 4 magazines full of 5.56 mm ammunition for the M16 rifle I carried. From the moment I stepped off the plane, until the moment I departed for home, my M16 rifle and my M40 gas mask were always on my body. It was folly to be without them. My military occupational specialty was aircraft firefighting and rescue. I served on a team that, when a plane or helicopter crashed, extinguished the fire and rescued the crew. We were busy in Desert Storm. We had all manner of flight line emergencies. We had A-10s make emergency landings with hung ordinance, AH-1 Cobra helicopters barely make it back because they were so shot up with small arms fire, and we had a spectacular mishap when a Saudi Arabian helicopter taxied into the wing of a C-130. It was a busy time. The saddest duty I pulled during the Persian Gulf War was providing fire support for the mobile medical unit. Our base of operations was the furthest north air field and combat hospital, and nearly every wounded Marine, soldier, airman, and seaman was triaged and treated there. Once they were stable enough for transport, they were sent to a major military hospital in Germany. Our job, was to make sure no fires started on the plane or on the airfield, and that no terrorists drove by while the injured were being loaded onto the plane. My heart broke every time a litter with a wounded serviceman was loaded onto the plane. Most were severely burned, and many had lost limbs. While our war was short, those that fought on the front lines got hammered in their tanks and light armored vehicles by mortars and RPGs. I will never forget these brave wounded men. This is why Veteran’s Day makes me sad, it is an all day reminder of those cold nights and sandstorm raging days when I stood on the airfield, with my hand-line, ready to extinguish fires, or turn the firehose towards an unknown vehicle traveling too fast in our direction. Surviving a war and coming home can be difficult for many. It was for me.  Conner's CrusherMatt, Lieutenant Commander Conner, served 14 years as an officer in the Unites States Navy (1995-2009). Matt was a Naval Aviator and flew helicopters. He flew the SH-60F and HH-60H Seahawks, and the MH-60S Knighthawk.
After attending flight school and earning his Naval Aviator "Wings of Gold", Matt was deployed with his squadron, HS-6, on the aircraft carrier USS CARL VINSON (CVN-70) twice in support of Operation Southern Watch ('98-'99), and Operation Enduring Freedom ('01-'02). Then, he was a helicopter instructor pilot and flight standardization officer at HS-10, Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California. Matt met his wife and Bozeman native, Cheri, through his squadron-mate, and future best-man, Billy Fraser. Matt continued in the Naval Reserves for three years after moving to Bozeman in 2006, commuting down to San Diego, CA once a month for flight duties. In 2009 with a young family and a new business started, he left the reserves and became a full-time civilian and lunchtime CrossFit regular. Conner's Crusher With a partner or a team of 3 4 Rounds for time to honor his rank = O-4 14 Push Press 95/65 - 14 reps to honor his years in service. Each partner must do 14 before moving on - one partner holds a plank while the other lifts. Reps can be broken up in any order, but both partners must complete 14 each. 60 Burpee Box Over - 60 reps to honor the type of helicopters he flew. Break up the reps between partners. Teams only need to complete 60 total reps, one partner works while the other rests. 140 Double Unders - 140 reps to honor his two tours aboard CVN-70. Break up the reps between partners. Both can work at the same time. If one finishes before the other, that partner does flutter kicks. |
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