Welcome, Meet Julian

Sergeant Julian Torres joined the Marine Corps from his hometown of Modesto, California in 2007, and graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. He was assigned to Naval Base Kitsap, Bangor, and subsequently to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina as a machine gun squad leader with the ‘Never to Quit Battalion,” 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines. In 2010 he deployed to Marjah, located in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. A month later, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) changed his life forever.

Early in the morning of July 15, 2010, Sergeant Julian Torres stepped on an IED, and he medically evacuated off the battlefield. He trickled through different combat medical facilities and finally checked in to his primary medical rehab center, the Wounded Warrior Battalion – West, Detachment San Diego, in September 2010. Over the next five years, while continuing to overcome the loss of both legs, Julian’s rehab culminated with the summiting of Mount Kilimanjaro on Veterans Day 2015.

Julian Torres is married to Mrs. Ashley, his high school sweetheart and his rock. Together they currently live in Southern California and have been blessed with two children. When Julian Torres isn’t a stay-at-home dad, you can find him lifting the pig iron in his home gym. Working with his fruit trees, feeding his chickens, working on cars, climbing mountains, or most recently interviewing successful veterans for his new podcast “Coffee with Julian.”