Christopher Saul | Mid Bay News | June 10, 2022

Participants in this year’s ‘LU’ workout over Memorial Day Weekend raised more than 15 thousand dollars for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. 

The event, hosted by Black Rifle Coffee Company in Niceville, honored Master Sergeant Luis DeLeon-Figueroa – a Special Forces Sergeant who died in Afghanistan in 2019.

Although three years have passed since DeLeon-Figueroa died fighting in an operation in Faryab Province – in the north of Afghanistan, the people of Niceville haven’t forgotten him. The sergeant made the Okaloosa County area his home while he served with the 7th Special Forces Group. 

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