…at the University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio. He is planning to work at Brooke Army Medical Center as a physical therapist to help other injured Veterans in their recovery. “I would like to give back to our wounded Heroes that are coming back injured from overseas. With my experience as a limb salvage for three years and now an amputee, I would be able to provide more than just care to them,” he says. When he’s not studying,…
…issues. Luke’s specially adapted custom HFOT home enables him to pursue his philanthropic and personal endeavors. The financial freedom gives him the foundation to focus on his education; additionally, the home offers him a comfortable and safe living environment. The widened hallways and open floorplan of the home provide enough space for him to maneuver his wheelchair, allowing him to set up a home gym so he can train for sled hockey. He also enjoys other special adaptations such as…
PO2 ANTHONY THOMPSON Houston, TX Mission Accomplished on Jan. 22, 2011 On April 20, 2007, Naval Petty Officer Anthony Thompson was on his second deployment to Iraq with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines Fox Company 3rd Platoon, near Fallujah, when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive under an overpass where Thompson and his Marines had taken up post. During recovery efforts, Anthony was found unresponsive on a pile of concrete rubble. After being transported to three separate Battalion Aid…
CPL Jeffrey Argrave Prairieville, LA Project Completed on March 23, 2013 On May 30, 2010, Army Corporal Jeffrey Argrave was on his first deployment when he became paralyzed after sustaining major injuries to his spinal column from shrapnel through the neck and a C5 vertebrae fracture during a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack followed by an ambush in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. While relieving a team on duty in a guard tower, CPL Argrave was receiving his back brief when an RPG…
…3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment, attached to the 82nd Airborne Division. He loved doing his job as an artilleryman with his comrades. On May 4, 2010, the career he enjoyed so much came to an end. During a fire mission, an enemy mortar round struck SGT Shumaker and his unit in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. The attack resulted in the loss of his left leg and damage to the right leg. He developed Compartment Syndrome in his right leg, which…
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