Author: Rick Woolard

Rick Woolard was a US Navy SEAL for 30 years, during which he fought in Vietnam, drove the development of SEAL Combat Swimmer, Winter Warfare and Sniper capabilities, and commanded SEAL Teams Two and Six. After the Navy, he helped lead the Special Operations Fund and the Navy SEAL Museum, and spearheaded the construction of the Navy SEAL Monument in Virginia Beach. The film A Bond Unbroken tells how he and his teammates found and rescued their Vietnamese combat interpreter 40 years after the war. He spent a day with Pavel in 2007 and has been swinging, snatching, pulling, and getting up with kettlebells ever since. Like the Russian man in Q&D, he loves, respects, and slightly fears his wife of 50 years, and feels the same about kettlebells.