The team was created in 2014. It started out as the Hendersonville Jaguars, then became the Hendersonville Speed. Now, they're the MJR Bucks, named after the team's first owner, Michael James Robinson, who sadly passed away before the team's first game years ago.
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"Him and my husband were sitting down, talking one night about wanting to start a football team and the next thing you know, they were putting out fliers. We had tryouts and a lot of people came," Karen Hill said.
Karen Hill echoed that, saying the team is about more than football -- it's about family. She said they've had players in the past come from other cities and states, to get out of a tough situation and pursue opportunities in the sport. She and Charlton have even let those players live with them and set them up with jobs while they're in Hendersonville.
JVC: The second deployment was definitely different than the first (laughs). I finished selection and became a Green Beret. They assigned me to 10th Special Forces Group out in Colorado to 3rd Battalion, Alpha Company. They decided to put me on Mountain Team. The team that I went to hadn't had a Team Leader in a really long time. I passionately wanted to go to a HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) team and I really think I would've done well on an ASOT (Advanced Special Operations Techniques) Team, but instead I went to a Mountain team. I'd never really climbed a mountain before and never really had an interest in climbing mountains before that (laughs). I got to my team and we found out 1st and 2nd Battalions were deploying to Iraq.
I think 3rd Battalion was only taking 15 teams and we were one of the teams that they weren't going to take. I was told that they were not taking my team because they did not have a team leader during the planning process. They were having us stay back and do something like White Cycle Tasking or something like that. We were going to be in the rear and that was going to mean that everybody else was going to combat except for us. A couple of the older guys on the team came up to me after we found out we wouldn't be going to Iraq and they were like, "Hey man, we're not staying in the rear with the gear while everyone else deploys. We are going to deploy. You get your ass up to the group commander and convince him that he's going to take us or you're not worth shit." So, now I'm a brand new Captain walking into the team room now having to convince the group commander that our ODA needs to be deployed.
I put together a pretty solid proposal and my company commander said, "No way." I finally convinced him to let me go to the group commander and present the case to him. I presented the case with passion and the group commander said, "Alright, instead of 15 teams we will be taking 16 teams." I told my team and they were pretty excited. My company commander wasn't too excited about it because he didn't think I had a shot in hell to convince the group commander. He said, "Well Jason, I've got no place to put you over there so here's a map of Iraq. Find a place to go." I talked to the guys on the team and we found a location called Jalula (Ja-lou-la) that hadn't been occupied by coalition forces in over three years. We were hearing a lot of rumors about that area because it was near the Al-Qaeda stronghold of As Sadiyah. I was on the PDSS (Pre-Deployment Site Survey) with Zach Loudy and Scott Hendrickson. We went with another ODA and this ODA (Operational Detachment-Alpha) had a FOB (Forward Operating Base) and they already knew where they were going so we traveled with them.
We took a trip up to our area to see where we could potentially build a team house and we found an Iraqi Army Battalion up there. We found there were some Australian contractors living with them up there. We talked to the contractors and found out they were getting mortared nearly every night by Al Qaeda. We thought that made it a good place to go because obviously there was a good fight there. We talked to the Iraqi Army and they showed us an isolated outpost on their base. They told us we could live there. The outpost needed a ton of work so we went back to the FOB that night to start planning how we'd build up that outpost. The next day, we prepared to go back to the outpost to continue our site survey. We left on a three humvee convoy. As soon as we left the wire, my company commander, Major Csicsila, called me on the radio and told me to turn around and come back. He told me he was flying to my location and he wanted to speak with me. I said, "Roger, wilco." We turned around. I had Scott replace me in the Humvee and the convoy left again. I went inside, took off my body armor, set my rifle down, and I heard on the radio, "Troops in contact, troops in contact, troops in contact!" I went to the operations center and asked, "Who is it? Who's in contact?" The guy on the radio said, "Dude, it's your guys!" I was like, "How is that even possible? They just left!"
JVC: Being young, my entire team myself included wanted to find the guys who were responsible for detonating the IED that injured our brothers. We had that young, vengeful mindset at the time. We were looking for a fight. We wanted to find those guys and make them pay. We wanted to make things right. My team was pretty young and most had never been to combat before. A lot of the younger guys were asking about my first time in combat and so I tried to help them by utilizing those previous experiences. We moved into our outpost and it was a disaster. The entire team was sleeping on cots one room. Blazing hot, pulling security shifts at the top of the building every single night. It was a major bonding experience in shared hardship and that passage of suffering and all that came with it. We were pretty miserable but surviving because we had each other. We got mortared a few times a week.
JVC: Everyone processes and handles death differently. As a commander, I knew it was my fault because we went on that mission. It's something I wanted to do and hindsight being 20/20 would I have done things differently? Absolutely. It was tough for me to accept that's what happened. There were a couple guys on the team that face-to-face blamed me and that was really hard to handle. That was really rough. But, I thought about the fact that I was the commander and I needed to be tough in those moments. I didn't flinch after that and two weeks later we were on one of, if not the largest FID (Foreign Internal Defense) missions in Iraq at the time. I had 4,000 Kurds under my command and we cleared a city up in Northern Iraq. It was completely overrun by Al-Qaeda and we cleared the city and gave it back to the Iraqi government. We executed it flawlessly and we actually ran that mission on September 11, 2007.
They told me they supported my idea so I started this company called "Mission 6 Zero." Being bold and a risk taker and believing in myself, I just started cold calling NFL teams. I went down the list of teams until I got to the New York Jets and they answered the phone. They told me to come out to New York on my own dime and present my plan to them. I was offering a service that put me in competition with a couple other companies who were offering the same type of service. I was fired up and I knew that if I had a chance I would win that contract. I went up there with a couple of my SF buddies and we presented our plan to the Jets, exposing our hearts to them and the next day they called me up and said, "Congratulations. You won a contract. We liked you guys more than the other teams." That was the beginning of Mission 6 Zero.
JVC: We created Warrior Rising after an event with the Oakland Raiders in 2014. We brought a lot of wounded veterans out to the event to serve as instructors. It is very cathartic for them to come out and share their experiences with the client. It is very beneficial for them to be back around their brothers again in a team environment. We treat them the same as before they were wounded. They're our brothers regardless of their physical and mental wounds. It was pretty incredible for the players to get to hear our wounded brother's stories and how they'd overcome their circumstances. After the event was over we were all hanging out. I asked the guys how they were doing and I got some responses back. One of the guys started talking about his disability checks from the government and I was like, "That's great brother." Then one of the guys talked about this charity that took them out hunting and again I was like, "That's awesome." I remember quite a few of the guys telling me, "It's not that awesome Jason." I was like, "Sounds pretty great to me. Why's it not awesome?"
JVC: My childhood was phenomenal because I had incredible parents. My mom and dad were absolutely amazing. A lot of kids grew up embarrassed of their mom and dad but I always thought my parents were cool. Every time my mom recommended something to me I knew she was right. She was so awesome. My mom always had the answers. Even when I didn't agree with her, I knew it was always the right decision when she gave me advice. My dad was always very blunt and absolutely hilarious. He kind of gave me the tough love. I remember when I was in 8th grade and I was playing youth club football. I was bigger than most of my friends so I had to play in the 155 lb. league. There were a lot of high school kids that hadn't made the high school team so they were playing youth club. I remember I was a lot smaller than a lot of the guys because I was playing a level up in that league. I remember one game in particular my dad saying stuff like, "You pussied out. You were too scared to make that tackle." He completely tore into me but I knew he was right. I could handle it and he knew that. I learned to be tough as a kid.
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