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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nSGT K sends a link to an ESPN article<\/a> which reports that John Napier, a member of the US bobsled team has told his team that he’s leaving the sport so that he can go back in the military. He says that he hopes to join a special forces unit in the Army or the Navy. The article says that the Schenectady, N.Y. man deployed once to Afghanistan with his Vermont National Guard unit as an infantryman and “saw combat” on that tour.<\/p>\n “After Afghanistan, I had a lot of rational and irrational ideas about sport,” Napier said, according to the Times Union. “I never got the taste of selflessness that I did in Afghanistan. There is not a morning that I don’t wake up and miss it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “I don’t want to compete at something just because I was good at something,” he said, according to the Times Union. “That is not where my heart is.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n From the Albany Times Union<\/a>;<\/p>\n The scales of his two passions \u2014 the military and bobsledding \u2014 started to tip away from sport. It wasn’t about the rush of conflict; rather, it was the bond in conflict representing your county that no national sports team can replicate.<\/p>\n “It was the camaraderie,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “There is something itching inside of me,” he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n To frighten the bejesus out of Joe, Apparently, Napier is an “unashamed Christian<\/a>“. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"