WHAT LED YOU TO JOIN THE NAVY AND BECOME A SEAL? My brothers and I grew up in a military family. My dad was a Green Beret Officer. That was big in our lives-we grew up looking at our Dad as a role model. He was this tall, good looking, in shape stud, and we

POMPANO BEACH, Florida—John Owens was in the back of a C-17 transport aircraft surrounded by members of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, known to the public as SEAL Team Six. John’s younger brother, Ryan, was there too, laying in a casket draped in stars and stripes. The flight from Germany to Dover Air Force

A 4-mile beach run (usually carrying gear and wearing combat boots) is typical of what Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens would have done with his brother, John Owens, of Deerfield Beach, when Ryan trained to become a Navy SEAL. The brothers would indeed serve the U.S. as part of the elite Navy’s Sea, Air and