Mar 16th, 2008
Shamrock runners raising money for memorial fund of slain Navy SEAL
"Team Groove” will be running in Sunday’s Shamrock Marathon, raising money for a scholarship fund named in memory of a Virginia Beach sailor killed in 2005 in Afghanistan.
Lt. Michael M. “Groove” McGreevy Jr., 30, was assigned to SEAL Team 10, based at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Virginia Beach, when the MH-47 Chinook helicopter he was on crashed on June 28, 2005, while ferrying personnel to a battle against militants in Afghanistan.
He was one of three local Navy SEALs among the 16 servicemen killed in the crash in the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan after the chopper was shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade.
After his death, his widow, Laura, other family, friends and comrades organized the Mike McGreevy Memorial Scholarship Fund. It provides a pair of four-year scholarships annually, one given to a student in Norfolk or Virginia Beach and the other to a student from McGreevey’s hometown of Portville, N.Y.
Participants in Team Groove pay a $100 entry fee which covers the cost of race registration with remaining funds going to the scholarship fund.
For more information or to register, go to: www.mikemcgreevymemorialfund.org
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