A North Texas Marine veteran is back home after his fourth trip providing support to soldiers defending Ukraine.
Critical to its efforts are U.S. combat veterans like Lance Zaal, helping not only to fight but to turn civilians into soldiers.
“I felt that this was different than anything that I did when I was in the military because I was helping a group of people that were really trying to defend themselves against this evil force that was so much more powerful than they were,” said Zaal. Zaal, a Marine veteran and North Texas native, is back home after his fourth trip since the war began. In addition to training 80 men, he's supplied them with things like body armor vests, drones and first aid kits., has spent nearly a quarter of a million dollars supporting an aviation unit deemed critical to the effort.
“After every trip that I make, the more I experience, the more stories I hear, the more I witness of the things that Russia has been doing to Ukraine, they make me frankly angry. So the more I go, the angrier I get,” he said. Zaal said the same is true of the Ukrainians he’s fought alongside as they fight to protect democracy.
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