The Honolulu Advertiser has a nice profile of Spc. David Denson.
ISTAQLAL, Iraq Overcoming challenges and defying the odds is nothing new to Spc. David Denson.The 37-year-old infantryman with Multi-National Division Baghdad's Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds," 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team "Warrior," 25th Infantry Division, currently attached to the 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div., has spent his life doing what others said that he couldn't do.
Those people said this Oceanside, Calif., native, couldn't surf the Southern Californian waves with the professionals. However, Denson dedicated his young life to surfing. He surfed hard and began his professional surfing career riding for the Hobie, Life's a Beach, Body Glove and Rip Curl surf teams.