Nick Lavery is an Active-Duty U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret. He's a six-foot-six warrior through and through, with a thorough list of awards that includes the Silver Star, three Purple Hearts, two Bronze stars, the Special Operations Command Excalibur Award, and more. He's also considered the first Green Beret to return to combat as an above the knee amputee - a record-setter with a flair for sacrifice, determination, and selflessness.

Rest assured, Nick recalls exactly how he lost his leg, in an engagement so shocking that it's only counter may be the moments that immediately followed, in a horrifying Medivac incident that nearly cost him his life. But how did he survive? What called him to go back? And how the hell do you go back to being a Green Beret with only one leg? Fortunately for Mike, Nick's got the answers.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:30 - Indisputably Boston
07:30 - Morning Routine
10:00 - A New Home Every Year
17:00 - The Only Reason I Went to College
22:30 - Fort Bragg's Spec Ops Course
27:30 - Too Big to Haze
35:00 - The First Trip to Afghanistan
44:30 - Wardak - Dropped in a Hornet's Nest
49:00 - Catching Shrapnel
53:00 - A Bleacher Seat from Fenway Park
59:00 - Vehicular Ambush at a Dead Sprint
01:07:00 - Then I Got Shot in the Face
01:18:00 - Hibernating on Airdropped MRE's
01:22:00 - Flexing the Gustav
01:27:00 - Selfish Love
01:31:00 - Bach the Dog, Moe the Handler
01:35:00 - Losing My Leg
01:43:30 - Three Tournequets
01:54:00 - Six Units of The Wrong Blood
01:59:00 - Amputated Above the Knee
02:04:00 - Prosthetic Recovery
02:10:00 - Fighting to Go Back
02:20:00 - Back in the Saddle
02:26:30 - My Favorite Amputee Gunfight Story
02:31:00 - You Should've Killed Me When You Had the Chance
02:36:00 - How A Mechanical Leg Actually Works
02:42:00 - Finding Toni
02:49:00 - Objective Secure
02:59:00 - Becoming Dad
03:09:00 - What's Next?

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