5 questions only a veteran would ask a Green Beret and former NFL player

Nate Boyer has passed tests most never try. He was an Army Green Beret, played Division I football and even earned a spot on an NFL roster.

But he admitted to Task & Purpose he was a “recycle” at Airborne school.

Some of the Task & Purpose team is in Baltimore for the 126th Army-Navy game, talking to veterans and active-duty military members about service, the football rivalry and more. Ahead of the game, they got some time with Nate Boyer.

“There’s nothing like Army-Navy. It’s special,” Boyer told Task & Purpose. “It’s the only game this day for a reason. And it’s the only game where everybody in the crowd knows those men playing on the field will be willing to die for them. And that’s wild! True gladiators, not in the game itself, but in what they’re willing to do for us afterwards.”