Army Captain Becomes First Soldier With a Prosthetic Limb to Complete Special Forces Selection
by Steve Balestrieri
:
Six years ago on August 24, 2014, Army Captain Carey DuVal was living a nightmare. He was then an infantry lieutenant conducting a patrol consisting of several Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles — MRAPs. The vehicles were sweeping roads in their assigned area in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, looking for IEDs.
Then a Toyota pickup truck filled with explosives crashed into the side of his vehicle. The force of the explosion flipped the 15-ton MRAP on its side, blowing the door off. All five of the soldiers inside the vehicle were wounded, with DuVal the most seriously wounded of all.
He was quickly airlifted to Bagram airbase. He was then transported to Germany and finally to Walter Reed Army Medical Center about 10 miles from Washington D.C. DuVal had suffered a compound fracture of his right femur, breaks to his right elbow and upper and lower arm. The upper half of his palm and fingers were also amputated in the blast.
https://sofrep.com/news/army-captain-becomes-first-soldier-with-a-prosthetic-limb-to-complete-special-forces-selection/
