Green Beret Physician Assistant receives Soldiers Medal for saving his mentor’s life
By: Michael Bottoms - USSOCOM Office of Communications - 1/13/2021
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A beautiful spring day. A bike ride. Then a violent crash.
April 7, 2019 was a day that would change the lives of Army Lt. Col. Larry Wyatt, U.S. Special Operations Command’s Physician Assistant and clinic director, and his mentor, retired Army Col. Thomas Wells, a Princeton University trained trauma surgeon and former Army Ranger, forever.
Wyatt had to give up running for physical reasons so Wells, an avid biker, suggested he take up cycling. Out on only his second bike ride with Wells on the Pinellas bike trail near Tampa, Florida while crossing a bridge they saw two motorcycles come racing toward them.
“We were at mile marker 25 on the trail coming on the bridge and I could see a motorcycle front end coming up and the trail motorcycle pulled around to pass and they approached us laterally and there was nowhere to go because of the chain link fence around the bridge,†said Wyatt.
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