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...

1 st Battalion, 5 th Marine Regiment has participated in many major battles throughout U.S. history to include Belleau Wood in World War I; Guadalcanal and Peleliu in World War II; and Hue City in the Vietnam War. Their nickname “Geronimo” is a tribute to the legendary Apache warrior, reflecting his fearlessness in combat. Today’s generation is no different and will be added to the history books with the same prestige as those that went before them for their bravery in the invasion of...