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Training The Elite
by Paul on 09/01/10 at 09:09 AM ET
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from John Manasso at NHL.com,
As strength and conditioning coach of the Atlanta Thrashers for nine years, Ray Bear bore a military bearing. He didn’t fit the tired drill sergeant stereotype, but the crew cut and the seriousness in his squint always remained in the background even when his good humor stood out front.
Ten years before he went to work for the Thrashers, he did a combat tour as a medic in the U.S. Army’s First Cavalry Division during the first Gulf War. He served in active duty for three years and then for three more in the National Guard.
Two months ago, Bear put bookends on his military career when he resigned from the Thrashers to accept a new civilian position at Fort Bragg in North Carolina that the Army created to train, as Bear put it, some of the U.S. military’s elite soldiers.
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