Tag Archives: Africa
The why behind Kilimanjaro Warriors
A guest blog by Kilimanjaro Warriors’ founder, Steve Connolly As we are about to embark on our journey to summit Africa’s highest mountain, I wanted to explain what this journey means to me and why I wanted to begin a project like this. I want this project to be about our team, but I think […]
Cold weather training in North Carolina with the All Veteran Parachute Team
Last weekend, The All Veteran Parachute team hosted the Kilimanjaro Warriors in Fayetteville, North Carolina. We were invited to do our first cold weather training hike to help prepare for our upcoming expedition. With the journey to Mount Kilimanjaro beginning in just three weeks, this was our last session to test our equipment and our […]
Press Release
In 1991 during Operation Desert Storm, a young Air Force Captain, Steve Connolly was on the ground serving as a Forward Air Controller. He controlled 30 airstrikes against enemy targets and captured six prisoners in a battle where one prisoner’s leg was shot off from the knee down. Captain Connolly stabilized the prisoner by applying […]
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