I’ve met him before, we talked Iraq and Afghanistan for like 2 hours over coffee.
He was an Army infantry officer for 20 years, deployed 2 times to Iraq, 1 to deployment to Afghanistan, 2 deployments to Africa.
He got out and decided to go to law school cuz his wife was a JAG officer so he had heard “her lawyer bullshit” for 15 years and figured it would be easy.
Talked for 2 hours and he never once mentioned getting wounded, went to his office after and I see 3 Purple Hearts inside his honorable discharge/ribbons/flag shadow box thing his wife made him.
Never once said shit but he had a slight limp, before I had just figured cuz he is in his 60s and super tall so probably has fucked up knees. He caught me looking and said 2 were from the same incident when his convoy hit 2 IEDs at once. (Front and back of column) He was outside his vehicle pulling one of his wounded boys back to his humvee (pre-MRAP) and some random guy pops up shooting an AK at him, he shot him with his sidearm but bad guy sprayed bullets as he fell.
My man got shot (ricochets) in BOTH feet. Army gave him 2 medals and it took him months to be able to walk again.
