2025 5 for a Hero Challenge

May 23 @ 12:30 am - May 26 @ 11:30 pm

The Marine Raider Foundation invites you to run, walk, hike, bike, swim, row or paddle 5 miles this Memorial Day weekend to honor MARSOC’s 48 fallen heroes.  Register here: https://givebutter.com/5foraHeroChallenge

Please visit our Memorial Wall https://marineraiderfoundation.org/fallen-heroes/ to read the biographies of these brave men.

Sign up today, choose your hero or heroes, create your fundraising page and invite your friends and family to support your 5-mile trek. Fundraising pages will remain open until June 15th, giving you plenty of time to earn some great incentives including:

Raise $250 – Earn a Marine Raider Foundation patch & decal
Raise $500 – Earn a Marine Raider Foundation hat
Raise $1000 – Earn a Marine Raider Foundation t-shirt and water bottle
Raise $2000 – Earn a Marine Raider Foundation race kit (cycling, tri and running kits will be available)

This Memorial Day weekend, move 5 miles to honor and remember Marine Raider heroes! Please log your miles starting on Friday, May 23rd – you have until Monday, May 26th to complete your 5-miles. You can do it all in one day or break it up over four days, and you can mix up how you log those miles. Make it a family affair or do it solo!

Honoring and Remembering

Cpl Travis Woods, HM2 Luke Milam, SSgt Edgar Heredia, Capt Garrett Lawton, Sgt Michael Roy

Capt Joshua Meadows, SSgt Charles Cartwright, GySgt Robert Gilbert II, SSgt Christopher Antonik

SSgt David Day, Sgt William Woitowicz, Sgt Dennis Kancler, SSgt Patrick Dolphin

Sgt Christopher Wrinkle & K-9 Tosca, SSgt Nicholas Sprovtsoff, Sgt Justin Hansen, GySgt Daniel Price

GySgt Jonathan Gifford, SSgt Sky Mote, GySgt Ryan Jeschke, Capt Matthew Manoukian

HM1 Darrel Enos, SSgt Gregory Copes, Sgt Michael Guillory, Cpl David Sonka & K-9 Flex

SSgt Eric Christian, MSgt Aaron Torian, Sgt Charles Strong, Capt Stanford Shaw III

MSgt Thomas Saunders, SSgt Marcus Bawol, SSgt Trevor Blaylock, SSgt Liam Flynn, SSgt Kerry Kemp

SSgt Andrew Seif, MSgt Eden Pearl, SSgt Robert Cox, SSgt William Kundrat, Sgt Chad Jenson

Sgt Talon Leach, Sgt Joseph Murray, Sgt Dietrich Schmieman, HM2 Ryan Lohrey, SSgt Joshua Braica

GySgt Scott Koppenhafer, Maj Moises Navas, GySgt Diego Pongo, Sgt Wolfgang Kyle Weninger

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Marine Raider Foundation
PO Box 977, Fishers, IN 46038
(951) 551-9309 info@marineraiderfoundation.org

The Marine Raider Foundation is a 501(c)(3), tax exempt, national non-profit charitable foundation. Tax ID # 45-2913544

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National Medal of Honor Day
Marine Raider Merritt Austin Edson was awarded the Medal of Honor "For extraordinary heroism and conspicuous intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty as commanding officer of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion, with Parachute Battalion attached, during action against enemy Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands on the night of 13-14 September 1942. After the airfield on Guadalcanal had been seized from the enemy on 8 August, Col. Edson, with a force of 800 men, was assigned to the occupation and defense of a ridge dominating the jungle on either side of the airport. Facing a formidable Japanese attack which, augmented by infiltration, had crashed through our front lines, he, by skillful handling of his troops, successfully withdrew his forward units to a reserve line with minimum casualties. When the enemy, in a subsequent series of violent assaults, engaged our force in desperate hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, rifles, pistols, grenades, and knives, Col. Edson, although continuously exposed to hostile fire throughout the night, personally directed defense of the reserve position against a fanatical foe of greatly superior numbers. By his astute leadership and gallant devotion to duty, he enabled his men, despite severe losses, to cling tenaciously to their position on the vital ridge, thereby retaining command not only of the Guadalcanal airfield, but also of the 1st Division's entire offensive installations in the surrounding area." (MOH Citation) ... See MoreSee Less

National Medal of Honor Day Marine Raider Merritt Austin Edson was awarded the Medal of Honor For extraordinary heroism and conspicuous intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty as commanding officer of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion, with Parachute Battalion attached, during action against enemy Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands on the night of 13-14 September 1942. After the airfield on Guadalcanal had been seized from the enemy on 8 August, Col. Edson, with a force of 800 men, was assigned to the occupation and defense of a ridge dominating the jungle on either side of the airport. Facing a formidable Japanese attack which, augmented by infiltration, had crashed through our front lines, he, by skillful handling of his troops, successfully withdrew his forward units to a reserve line with minimum casualties. When the enemy, in a subsequent series of violent assaults, engaged our force in desperate hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, rifles, pistols, grenades, and knives, Col. Edson, although continuously exposed to hostile fire throughout the night, personally directed defense of the reserve position against a fanatical foe of greatly superior numbers. By his astute leadership and gallant devotion to duty, he enabled his men, despite severe losses, to cling tenaciously to their position on the vital ridge, thereby retaining command not only of the Guadalcanal airfield, but also of the 1st Divisions entire offensive installations in the surrounding area. (MOH Citation)
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