The Collarts, who lost their home in a 2020 fire, were mourning a family dog’s death when they learned that Spencer Collart was killed during a training exercise in Australia.
Some people on social media simply called the three deceased Marines “heroes.”The lanky 6-foot-2 former defenseman on his Arlington County high school lacrosse team loved being a Marine, said his father, Bart Collart.
When a local recruiter suggested that Collart’s upper body was too slender for the pull-up requirements in boot camp, he practiced on the thick limb of a tree behind one of the rental houses the family stayed in after the fire. Eventually, he was able to do at least 11 pull-ups on that limb, Bart Collart said.
Before Sunday’s accident, Spencer Collart was grieving the loss of Stella, disappointed that he wasn’t around to say goodbye when the affectionate schnauzer had to be put down, his family said.new house the family had built where their old home had burned down, in Arlington’s Maywood neighborhood.He had seen the nearly completed home during a visit in December from his base in Darwin — scoping out the bedroom in the front that would be his, Bart Collart said.
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