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Marine Corps’ Anthony McDaniel passes around Army’s Delvin Maston during the gold-medal match in wheelchair basketball at the 2014 Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Oct. 3, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Mike Morones\/Staff<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ferguson remembers the day McDaniel was injured, Aug. 31, 2010; the sergeant was one of his Marines, on a clearance patrol in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “When he got hurt, we didn’t think he would make it. For me, this is personal. I’m really looking forward to watching him play,” Ferguson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Retired Staff Sgt. Steven Malits celebrates a point over Army in Air Force’s first sitting volleyball match of the 2014 Warrior Games.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Mike Morones\/Staff<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Promising to add a dash of interservice rivalry to the competition is the medal count. For the first four years of the games, the Marine Corps won the Chairman’s Cup \u2014 the trophy awarded for the most medals won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last year, the Army stole the trophy away, earning 69 total medals to outpace the Corps’ 54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We’re eager to get that cup back, especially on our home turf,” Ferguson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Navy’s John Kremer tries to block a shot by Air Force’s Ryan Pinney during Navy’s 38-19 win in wheelchair basketball at the 2014 Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Sept. 29, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Mike Morones\/Staff<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n From across the pond, the U.K. team also will bring a dash of swagger, having hosted an extraordinarily successful Invictus Games last September at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which drew 400 athletes from 13 coalition countries along with thousands of spectators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We know how important sport is as part of an individual’s recovery. Not only does it help physically, sport provides huge psychological benefits, too, including improving self-confidence and self-esteem,” said Martin Colclough, head of sports recovery at Help for Heroes, team sponsor for Great Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The June 19 opening ceremonies take place at 18900 Jefferson Davis Highway, Triangle, Va. Organizers recommend that members of the public arrive at least 90 minutes before the 11 a.m. start, as security will be tight with a number of high-ranking military officials and civilian VIPs, including Defense Secretary Ashton<\/span> Carter, expected to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Athletes huddle before basketball practice at the Army’s 2015 Warrior Games trials on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas on March 28, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: EJ Hersom\/Joint Hometown News Service<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n All events are free and open to the public and require no registration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ferguson suggested those in the Washington, D.C., area consider spending a day at Quantico, enjoying an opportunity to see the base and some of the strongest warfighters in military service today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We encourage people to come out, interact with us and have fun right alongside us,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The games are an opportunity for troops to show off their athleticism while sparring on the battlefield of sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":80401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":95,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[92,95,15,16,88],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3267],"class_list":["post-73380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-fitness","category-military-sports","category-news","category-off-duty","category-your-military"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"QNHU2JQKLZHCPEEW3APSJCMOT4","arc_canonical_url":"\/off-duty\/military-sports\/2015\/06\/16\/athletes-warming-up-for-2015-warrior-games\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635700521418264662-off-2014-warrior-games10jpg.jpg\")
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