Warrior Woman Marine Runs To Honor Fallen Female Troops

Marine vet honors fallen female troops with 160-mile run 
Marine Corps Times
By Dean DeChiaro
Medill News Service
July 29, 2015

Marine Maj. Bridget Guerrero (ret.) ran 160 miles around the Puget Sound in Washington from Thursday through Sunday. Each mile represented a female service member who lost her life in Iraq or Afghanistan.
(Photo: Courtesy of Marine Maj. Bridget Guerrero (ret.))

When veteran Marine Maj. Bridget Guerrero set out to run a mile for each of the 160 female troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, she never thought that one of their moms would show up to support her along the way.

After training for months, Guerrero set out to run 160 miles around Washington's Puget Sound from Thursday through Sunday. When she noticed a stranger among the crowd that came out to support her along the four-day trek, Guerrero introduced herself — and quickly realized the woman was the most important person there.

Re McClung, the mother of Maj. Megan McClung, an accomplished triathlete and the first female Marine officer killed during the Iraq War, had come to wish Guerrero well. She gave Guerrero her daughter's service coin, which Guerrero kept duct-taped to her arm for the remainder of the race.

"To know she is running for my daughter … and to know that she is running with Meg's coin and to know that funds she raises will pay forward to the daughter of another Marine — it's overwhelming," Re McClung wrote on Facebook.
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