Elizabeth Marks Broke a Record and Won a Medal in Tokyo — Read More About the Paralympic Swimmer

Marks joined the US Army in 2008, and is currently a sergeant first class. According to the Army WCAP website, Marks attended a six-month program run by the National Guard called Arizona Project Challenge when she was an adolescent, which inspired her to enlist when she was just 17. Her dad is a US Marine veteran who served in Vietnam.