AEW star Swerve Strickland says his time in the United States Army prepared him for life, including becoming a World Champion!
College Volleyball Player Mariam Creighton Dead At 21, Killed In Nightclub Shooting's one of the most accomplished wrestlers in the world ... and he says he owes a lot of his success to years spent in the United States Army.... where he opened up on everything from becoming the first Black AEW world champ, to how his military service prepared him for life, including wrestling.
"Like two weeks after I graduated high school, I was going to basic training and that got me ready to like do stuff on my own. It's not going to get done if you don't do it, if you don't take the initiative to get up and just grind and go," Strickland said of the experience.Swerve, signal communications specialist, completed basic training in South Carolina in 2007, before being shipped to Georgia for nearly 6 months of additional training.
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