“But he’s also one tough son-of-a-…!”

“But he’s also one tough son-of-a-…!”:

A few days ago, while greeting another Wounded Warrior Flight at Andrews Air Force Base on behalf of the Military District of Washington, I met another remarkable warrior returning home. Five days prior a bomb buried on a narrow foot path in Afghanistan blew up, severing one of his legs, mangling the other with compound fractures, and tearing multiple holes in his lower body. The attack occurred as his unit was moving between compounds on a patrol in rural Afghanistan. They had been conducting what are called KLEs (a military acronym for Key Leader Engagements) with local village leaders, trying to gather information and bolster local alliances.

Buses stand by to transport sick and injured from the Andrews Air Force Base flightline across base to Malcolm Grow Hospital's 79th Aeromedical Staging Flight.