Navy’s Tyler Simmons went skiing back in February. It didn’t go well. The linebacker got a little crazy on the slopes, and ended up injuring himself in a most painful manner. Here’s how Simmons described the incident to Scout.com: I hit a mogul and I went down onto my ski poll and my ski poll broke a couple of my ribs and cut up my spleen pretty badly … I went to the hospital that night. (The doctors) cut off the blood flow to my spleen a couple days later and I spent a few weeks in the hospital. Yea,…
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Double-amputee Kevin Pannell snowboards toward a ski instructor through a half pipe Jan. 29 in Vail, Colo. Pannell, from Portland, Ore., lost both legs in a grenade attack when his Army patrol was ambushed by Iraqi insurgents in 2004. He was part of a group of a dozen war wounded and their families participating in the Vail Veterans Program winter ski retreat. The program is designed to help severely wounded U.S. service members rehabilitate and rebuild confidence through learning to ski and snowboard. Some of the wounded are flown in directly from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.…
Your base might have a golf course, but does it have a ski slope? Airmen at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska and Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, can make that claim. Both feature small slopes with only a few runs, but what did you expect, Killington or Aspen? We’re talking about the Air Force here. You can’t invest too much on a ski resort and risk stealing away money from the beloved golf courses. I digress. Both Hillberg Ski Hill at Elmendorf and Iceman Hill at Eielson are busy blowing snow getting ready to open over the Thanksgiving Day weekend.…
