The Green Beret Who Lost His Leg and Returned to Combat | Nick Lavery

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Some people survive adversity. Nick Lavery went back for more. Richard Taite sits down with Chief Warrant Officer Nick Lavery, an active-duty Green Beret, Silver Star recipient, and the first above-the-knee amputee in history to return to combat with a U.S. Army Special Forces team. After losing his leg in Afghanistan in 2013 during the most catastrophic insider attack of the Global War on Terror, Nick refused a medical retirement, spent a year recovering at Walter Reed, passed a grueling 15-week assessment, and deployed back to Afghanistan for full-spectrum combat operations. Nick and Richard talk about rebuilding identity after loss, how faith carried him through recovery, why veterans…