Aliceville Wounded Warrior Competes in Department of Defense Games

By Lt. Cmdr. Jenn Womble, Commander Navy Installations Command

COLORADO, SPRINGS, Colo. –U.S. Navy Culinary Specialist, Petty Officer 2nd Class Mario Ingram of Aliceville, Alabama will join more than 250 seriously wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans at the 2018 Department of Defense (DOD) Warrior Games June 1 - 9 at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Ingram will be competing against athletes from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, Special Operations Command (SOCOM), Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.

During the nine days of competition Ingram will compete in track, field, powerlifting, wheelchair basketball, and sitting volleyball.

"Our Navy Wounded Warrior athletes have shown incredible resiliency in their personal roads to recovery through Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC)'s Adaptive Sports Program. The actions of these athletes demonstrate the Navy’s core attributes of integrity, accountability, initiative and toughness," said Vice Adm. Mary Jackson, Commander, Navy Installations Command.

The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) has said that we will remain the world's finest Navy only if we all fight each and every minute to get better, “there is no better example of this performance than what our Sailors and CoastGuardsmen in the Navy Wounded Warrior Program do each and every day."