GySgt Benjie Manibog, USMC (Ret), was an anti-authoritarian youth turned MARSOC Raider and is the CEO of Thrash-N-Raid, a Southern California skateboard company and Operations Officer of Six Feet Above, a veteran outreach foundation that uses skateboarding to build veteran community. From the fateful day he met a Marine Recruiter who helped him clean up and get in shape to join the Marines, Benjie has been making it happen, through deployments, to getting into MARSOC, being their for his family and now running a skateboard company and a charitable foundation with the expressed goal to “Shred the Trend” of veteran suicide.

To support Six Feet Above, visit https://sixfeetabove.org/

To purchase some sweet skateboards or merch visit https://thrashnraid.com/

The views and opinions expressed on Scuttlebutt are those of the individuals and do not reflect the official position of the Marine Corps Association.

Produced by Nick Wilson, Vic Ruble, William Treuting, and Nancy Lichtman.

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