Jamel Herring

July / August, 2016

The Olympian and Marine Corps Hall of Fame boxer on how war and loss have kept him fightingJAMEL HERRINGMY WAYThe Olympian and Marine Corps Hall of Fame boxer on how war and loss have kept him fightingIAN FRISCHI was 19 years old when the military deployed me to Iraq for the first time. Fallujah was under heavy fire—this was 2005, the height of Operation Iraqi Freedom—and I spent seven months there as a field electrician in the Second Marine Logistics Group before they sent me back to North Caro...