In August, five combat veterans attended a retreat with Freedom Alliance at Los Sueños Resort in Costa Rica. The women all had served in the Navy, with exceptional service histories, and were excited to unite for a week of fun, adventure, and healing. This program relies on the generosity of the community – many of whom have supported Freedom Alliance since our first event in Costa Rica in 2013. They were housed in condominiums at the resort donated by grateful Americans: Gerald & Virginia...

For the final Offshore Experience of the season (which will resume in December), Freedom Alliance invited a group of four combat veterans to travel to Costa Rica. In the group were two Marines, Dustin and Bill. Dustin served 15 years in the Marine Corps as a Communications Chief and deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan. Bill served one enlistment with 1st Battalion, 5th Marines as a Machine Gunner, deploying to Iraq in 2004-05 and again in 2007 when he extended his enlistment...

Dimyas Perdue is a Marine who retired in 2022 after 22 years of service. He began his career in the Marine Corps as a Transmission System Operator and deployed to Iraq for the invasion. It was a harrowing experience, his unit losing 18 Marines in the Battle of Nasiriyah – and in his first firefight, he was awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal with “V” device for valor. Later, he served as a recruiter and then as an instructor at the Marine Corps Martial Arts Center of...