STATESBORO - The Georgia Southern Athletics Department is proud to announce it will recognize local military personnel who actively serve or have served our country at each Eagle home football game this season. These heroes protect America and represent all citizens and the department of athletics will be honor and host military men or women as part of the Hero of the Game.

For Saturday's opener against Gardner-Webb, the Brothers of the Kappa Alpha Order at Georgia Southern are gifting a Track Chair to Army Veteran Jonathan Moore who served in the Navy as a Hospital Corpsman from 1988-1995. During this time he went through the Aircrew program and then onto Search and Rescue. He participated in the efforts in Operation Desert Shield as well as Kosovo, Bosnia, and Serbia where he worked closely alongside Seal Team 2. Jonathan was injured in the line of duty while performing duties on the flight line when a broken latch from an F-14 punctured his back breaking a vertebrate and severing the nerves down his right leg. Moore is a single leg amputee.

The KA Brothers worked with the KA Chapters at West Georgia and Jacksonville State to selflessly raise $20,000 to provide Mr. Moore with this Track Chair as part of the Operation K.A.R.E. initiative — a student-led, joint initiative between KA chapters on colleges across the country and the Independence Fund, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based 501(c)3 committed to empowering our nation's catastrophically wounded, injured, or ill Veterans to overcome physical, mental, and emotional wounds incurred in the line of duty. Since 2016, Operation K.A.R.E. has raised [$541,000+] to provide Track Chairs to support our nation's most deserving. The Chapters would like to sincerely thank Georgia Southern University and the Inter-Fraternity Council for this opportunity to give back to those who have given so much to us.

The Hero of the Game will be recognized in the second quarter.

Fans can nominate a military member for Hero of the Game here: https://gseagles.com/sb_output.aspx?form=184