{"id":61279,"date":"2015-08-08T09:11:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T13:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61279"},"modified":"2015-08-08T10:09:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T14:09:57","slug":"glen-coffee-nfl-running-back-at-ranger-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61279","title":{"rendered":"Glen Coffee; NFL running back at Ranger School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61280\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Glen-Coffee-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"Glen Coffee\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Glen-Coffee-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Glen-Coffee-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Glen-Coffee-336x333.jpg 336w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Glen-Coffee.jpg 994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Glenwood Razeem &#8220;Glen&#8221; Coffee, Jr, after being a starting running back in his Junior year at the University of Alabama in 2008, became a third-round draft pick for the NFL in 2009 and he was picked up by the San Francisco 49ers. Before the 2010 season began, he retired from the sport after one year as a second stringer on the NFL team. <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2011\/05\/22\/glen-coffee-nfl-ruins-a-lot-of-lives\/\">ProFootballTalk<\/a>, he told the Sacramento Bee that the NFL ruined too many lives;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs far as the NFL goes, I have a hard time putting it like this because it sounds kind of harsh, but I feel like it ruins a lot of lives more than anything else,\u201d Coffee said. \u201cAnd that goes for people who have short careers in the NFL and long careers in the NFL. Because what happens is they see that as success.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2015\/08\/07\/glen-coffee-was-an-nfl-running-back-now-hes-on-the-army-ranger-school-staff\/\">Washington Post<\/a>, he found Christ and football was no longer a dream. <\/p>\n<p>In 2013, he enlisted in the Army and he&#8217;s currently a specialist and part of the support staff for waterborne operations at the 6th Ranger Training Battalion at Eglin Air Force Base, near his home at Fort Walton Beach. <\/p>\n<p>The Post asked him if he is going to train to be a Ranger;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNot everyone can serve in combat arms, and not everyone can serve in a Special Operations capacity,\u201d he said. \u201cSo that\u2019s why I joined. I felt like I was able to do it. Physically and mentally, because there is a mental aspect to it, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although not in Special Operations&#8230;he is asked regularly if he wants to attend Ranger School himself. The grueling leadership course is a minimum of 61 days long, with minimal sleep and food and stints at Fort Benning, Ga., and the mountains of northern Georgia before arriving in the swamps of Eglin Air Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s one of those things I ask myself right now, as a matter of fact,\u201d Coffee said of attending the course. \u201cAm I thinking about that because I want to do it out of pride, or because it would actually better me as a person? So, I\u2019m debating that right now. I have to ask myself, why would I want to go?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenwood Razeem &#8220;Glen&#8221; Coffee, Jr, after being a starting running back in his Junior year at &hellip; <a title=\"Glen Coffee; NFL running back at Ranger School\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61279\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glen Coffee; NFL running back at Ranger School<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}