Honoring Lt. (SEAL), Michael McGreevy.
Honoring Lt. (SEAL), Michael McGreevy. McGreevy was part of a dedicated Naval Special Warfare team fighting the Taliban, a fundamentalist regime that a U.S.-led coalition knocked from power in Afghanistan in 2001, but has continued to conduct guerilla operations, particularly along the Pakistan border. McGreevy worked to help ensure al Qaeda terrorists could not train in, nor launch strikes from Afghanistan since their lethal attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1997. A top athlete who ran track, wrestled and played soccer, he gained early admission to the Army’s academy at West Point, but held out for a spot at the Naval Academy. Upon graduation, he began as a Surface Warfare Officer, then went to BUD/S in late 1999, graduating as the Honor Man of his class in 2000. McGreevy, known to his friends as “Groove,” was assigned to Africa after the war broke out in Iraq. He deployed to Afghanistan in April 2005. ...