BATON ROUGE, La.--The Louisiana Warriors traveled to Texas and won the Lone Star Warriors Classic against the Dallas Warriors in Allen, Texas on April 3, 2022.
In December of 2021, U.S. Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sgt. Kevin Boggs, the Recruiting Station Baton Rouge Recruiter Instructor, worked together with local veterans in Louisiana and established the Louisiana Warriors.
“I initially started it all by filing for the license and setting up the bare bones in the beginning,” said Boggs. “Then I built the initial core team of the veterans who already played and empowered them each to do different things to get the ball rolling, such as purchasing jerseys, signing up for tournaments, recruiting new players, fundraising,...
U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Julie L. Nethercot, left, the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island and Eastern Recruit Region commanding general, Sgt. James G. Pond, a recruiter with Recruiting Sub Station Asheville, Staff Sgt. Xavier D. Burnette, the senior drill instructor for platoon 1034, Alpha Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Sgt. Maj. Edwin A. Mota, the MCRD Parris Island and ERR sergeant major, and family members congratulate Pfc. Remington W. Wright after the graduation ceremony for Alpha Company, 1st RTB, at MCRD Parris Island, South Carolina, May 20, 2022. Wright earned this distinction over 13 weeks of training by outperforming other recruits in his company during a series of training events designed to test their basic Marine Corps skills. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kevin Lopez Herrera)
U.S. Marine Corps veterans John Laughner, Michael Giannattasio, Michael Guy, and Bob “Rocco” Ruggeirro reflect on their visit to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, April 1, 2022. The four Marine veterans traveled to MCRD Parris Island to celebrate their 50-year anniversary of graduating Marine Corps recruit training on April 2, 1972. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Jareka Curtis)
