Thank you veterans!
Military Appreciation Night is a DR Hockey tradition and we are thrilled to have it return this year. We will have an on-ice ceremony before the start of the game to honor invited veterans with the presentation of the colors and signing of the national anthem.
THANK YOU to our honored guests:
- Gabriel Velez PFC Marines and is currently serving
- Captain Link Herron, United States Marine Corps, 1983 to 1991, infantry.
- Jim Higgins, United States Navy from 1968 to 1973
- Mitch Behm, USMC, Iraq, Africa, Kuwait
- Dennis Baker, US Army, six years, Ft Devens MA, Ft Carson CO, Guantanamo Bay Cuba, Specialist E-4
- Troy Hendricks, Army 4 years Millitary Police
- Gene Holland, Air Force, Staff Sergeant, 1968-1972.
- Mike Thyne served in the US Navy, as an E4, from 1970 to 1974.
- Darren Ogle, Army Reserves, as the First Sergeant of the 308th Military Police Company at Fort Carson. Deployments to Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
- Coach Joe Giardino, US Marine Corps, Infantry and Combat Veteran, Iraq & Afghanistan.
- Coach Travis Ingbretson, US Army, 1990-1994, Combat Veteran, Desert Storm