If you're learning how to coach football for the first time, it's pretty unusual to start your training inside one of the country's premier venues. Well, that's what's happening for some military veterans and their families.
organization, Southern California veterans are getting all the training they need to become certified football coaches.
"I'm just at a loss of words, it's an excitement in being here, being an inner city kid, a younger man, getting a chance experience this, I'm just at a loss of words," said Navy Aviation maintenance administrationman Mikal Bradley, whose participating in the program.
Soldiers to Sidelines aims to help veterans by creating a community and improving their mental well-being as well improving quality of coaching. "Military service and coaching are incredibly linked," said James Herrera with the Wounded Warriors Project. "When they're out there on the battlefield, serving one another, watching their brothers and sisters to their left and their right, they're developing those incredible leadership skills to translate to coaching and mentioning our nation's youth and sport."
Those 30 vets left SoFi Stadium with on-the-field football coaching training and the certification they need to be the best coaches they can be.
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