Photo by Staff Sgt. Ben Navratil | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division | 07.07.2011
U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Lopez, a native of Los Angeles and a signal support specialist with Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Task Force Duke, spars with another soldier on Forward Operating Base Salerno July 7. Lopez has been training to be a boxer since he was in high school....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Ben Navratil | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division | 07.07.2011
U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Lopez, a Los Angeles native and signal support specialist with Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Task Force Duke, practices his striking technique in a mirror in the Forward Operating Base Salerno gym July 7. Lopez, a boxer, had an amateur fight record of 12-0 before joining the Army in 2005....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Ben Navratil | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division | 07.07.2011
U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Lopez, a Los Angeles native and signal support specialist with Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Task Force Duke, swings a sledgehammer at a tire in the Forward Operating Base Salerno gym July 7. Lopez, a boxer, says this type of exercise works his upper body, and allows him to focus all his energy into a surge of power......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Ben Navratil | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division | 07.07.2011
U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Lopez, a Los Angeles native and signal support specialist with Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Task Force Duke, works out his abdominals at the Forward Operating Base Salerno gym July 7. Lopez was a member of the All-Army Boxing team in 2005, but had to leave due to a deployment to Iraq in 2006....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Ben Navratil | Combined Joint Task Force 1 - Afghanistan | 07.07.2011
U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Lopez, a Los Angeles native and signal support specialist with Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Task Force Duke, trains on a speed bag at the Forward Operating Base Salerno gym, July 7. Lopez tailored his workouts and diet to help him reach his maximum potential as a boxer....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Ben Navratil | Combined Joint Task Force 1 - Afghanistan | 07.07.2011
U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Lopez, a native of Los Angeles and a signal support specialist with Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Task Force Duke, spars with another Soldier on Forward Operating Base Salerno, July 7. Lopez has been training to be a boxer since he was in high school....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Ben Navratil | Combined Joint Task Force 1 - Afghanistan | 07.07.2011
U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Lopez, a Los Angeles native and signal support specialist with Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Task Force Duke, swings a sledgehammer at a tire in the Forward Operating Base Salerno gym July 7. Lopez, a boxer, said this works his upper body and allows him to focus all his energy into a surge of power through his arms....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Ben Navratil | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division | 03.16.2011
U.S. Army Pfc. Jeremiah Mullins, a military policeman from Richmond, Va., attached to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Task Force Duke, lead by U.S. Army Sgt. Jeremy Burch, the non-commissioned officer in charge of the TF Duke mild traumatic brain injury reconditioning center and native of Memphis, Tenn., takes part in the exertional......
