Here's another one published in STARS and Stripes. Some things you've read before, but overall very good stuff dealing with his arrival at the Seahawks. This first part should make you want to read more...
Green Berets thrive on anonymity, on secrecy.
This weekend is absolutely not that.
Nate Boyer, 34-year-old veteran of three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan as a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier, walked up to the podium just beyond the Seattle Seahawks’ lush practice field. He squinted into the sun, into the cameras trained on him, into the reporters five rows deep wanting to talk to him.
“I wasn’t expecting this,” he said on his first day in the NFL as a Seahawk.
The former Staff Sgt. Boyer was standing beside one of the NFL’s most modern and opulent team headquarters, on the shores of Lake Washington. It was a perfect Northwest spring day.
It was also a world — another lifetime, really — away from deserts and tanks and patrols, former workplaces such as Najaf, Iraq, and the Kapisa Province of Afghanistan.
“It’s an amazing place. I had no idea!” the most unlikely undrafted free agent long snapper in NFL history gushed during this Seahawks’ rookie minicamp that runs through Sunday. “It’s unbelievable.
“To be able to say I am officially an NFL player — for as long as it lasts — is amazing. It is hard to describe.”