In 2013, Marty Skovlund, Jr. received the "Venture Most Likely to Succeed" award from the Syracuse University Walter J. Whitman School of Management.
Marty Skovlund, Jr. once traveled from Denver, Colorado to the Italian/Slovenian border in three weeks with nothing but a backpack and one hundred dollars, all to raise money for charity.
Marty Skovlund, Jr. has deployed to Iraq three times, and Afghanistan twice during his time in the U.S. Army.