Inspired by my fellow SOFREP writer, BK, and his regular—and always hilarious—News Roundups, as well as the seemingly insatiable appetite out there for any news about the Navy SEALs, I figured, why not start a semi-regular Navy SEAL news roundup feature? Of course, I cannot promise these will be even half as entertaining as BK’s, but let’s give it a shot.

First, cue the chorus: “Haven’t we heard enough about the Navy SEALs!” “Why don’t those guys shut their mouths!?” And, “Why do they wear those super short dive shorts?”

Sorry haters. Feel free to stop reading here if you cannot abide any further stories about the Navy SEALs, or pictures of men in “catch-me-kiss-me” shorty shorts.

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Image courtesy of wcnc.com

First up on deck: SOFREP’s own Drago Dzieran. In a feature today on WCNC.com (Charlotte, North Carolina’s news leader!), Drago’s story is told in all its glory. Dzieran, along with former SEAL Brad Bailey, rode in a float in the Harrisburg, North Carolina Fourth of July parade, and the reporter tells the viewers of North Carolina about Drago’s arrival in the United States, at age 24, following a two-year stint in a Polish prison camp during the Cold War.

Sounds like the premise of a Regan-era sequel to “Red Dawn,” doesn’t it? “Red Dawn II: Drago’s Revenge!”

In the parade, Drago highlighted the Navy SEALs Fund, and in the featured piece, he spoke of his pride in being an American, and of his thankfulness for all this country has given him. If that does not inspire you to the heights of patriotic pride, then you ought to pack up and ship out for North Korea, China, or some other ‘not-America’ crap hole.

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Image courtesy of the Washington Post.

Next on deck: an inspirational, downright heartwarming story in today’s age of jaded politics and self-aggrandizement. Though he is often ridiculed as a poor man’s George W. Bush, with a penchant for forgetting his lines in presidential primary debates, former Texas Governor Rick Perry has shown true compassion and admirable care for his fellow man in his treatment of former SEAL and “Lone Survivor” author, Marcus Luttrell.

In an article in The Washington Post, readers are presented with the picture of a broken-down, battered, and still-recovering Luttrell as he shows up unannounced at the Texas governor’s mansion in 2007 (following the 2005 events of Operation Red Wings, detailed in Luttrell’s book), seeking Governor Perry by name. Luttrell had briefly met the governor and his wife in California when Luttrell was still stationed at Coronado, and the two had kept in touch via sporadic emails in the following months. Otherwise, Luttrell had no connection whatsoever with the Texas politician.