Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Matthew D. Mason, 37, grew up in Holt, Missouri and played football and baseball at Kearney High School. He graduated from Northwest Missouri State University in 1998, where he met his wife, Jessica.<br />Matthew graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL Training in Coronado, CA in January 2001, and after completing Naval Special Warfare Advanced Training in June of 2001, he reported to a SEAL Team on the west coast, and later moved to an east coast team in 2006. A severe arm injury and a collapsed lung during fighting in Fallujah in 2004, didn’t keep Matthew off the Iraq War battlefield, nor did it dull his competitive fire.  Five months after suffering these injuries, the avid runner and former high school athlete, finished the Kansas City Triathlon and rejoined his SEAL team. He is survived by his wife, and three sons.

Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Matthew D. Mason, 37, grew up in Holt, Missouri and played football and baseball at Kearney High School. He graduated from Northwest Missouri State University in 1998, where he met his wife, Jessica.
Matthew graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL Training in Coronado, CA in January 2001, and after completing Naval Special Warfare Advanced Training in June of 2001, he reported to a SEAL Team on the west coast, and later moved to an east coast team in 2006. A severe arm injury and a collapsed lung during fighting in Fallujah in 2004, didn’t keep Matthew off the Iraq War battlefield, nor did it dull his competitive fire.  Five months after suffering these injuries, the avid runner and former high school athlete, finished the Kansas City Triathlon and rejoined his SEAL team. He is survived by his wife, and three sons.