Bryce McDonald, seriously injured while serving with the Marines in Iraq, takes pride in maintaining high standards as UCLA football's chief of staff.
Once bustling with activity, UCLA ’s football practice field nearly has emptied on a warm morning. Heat glimmers off the artificial turf. The only sound is the squish of sneakers on that turf as Bryce McDonald jogs around the perimeter with a friend, savoring every step. Each one is a small victory, a reminder that he’s here. He’s alive. He’s doing something he enjoys. He has a purpose as the Bruins’ chief of staff .
“But it gets the wheels turning really quickly and you know once you get that diploma, things are going to happen.” Having lost several teammates as part of U.S. military operations in Fallujah, Iraq, McDonald put in to become part of the Navy’s student body commissioned to the Marine Corps so he could lead soldiers near where his friends had fallen. Only a few months into his 2006 deployment, one of the platoon’s specially trained dogs signaled it had detected bomb-making materials.
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