The Sage Sayers

Almost 50% of U.S. military experience one or more injury each year, according to the Defense Health Agency, and injuries result in 2,000,000 medical encounters annually across military services. The most extreme, deployment-related amputations, are harder to track; but since 2001, the Department of Defense has cared for over 63,000 beneficiaries of some level of limb loss. My guest in this week’s Sage Sayers is Jon Arnold, a San Antonio-based Political Military Affairs Advisor at United States Air Force, who lost his leg when deployed with the U.S. Army and serving in Iraq.

In his brave story, Jon recalls that day, what was on his mind just before the explosion incident which nearly killed him, and his courage as he healed, re-learned to walk, and the mental fitness required to find the gifts and the opportunities within. Because of his injury and the life-changing perspective change that came next, he’s never had a truly bad day since.

Note to our listeners: We prevailed over some audio challenges for this episode. We do plan to re-do.

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