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#128 - “I Was Ready to Die" An IED Took Both His Legs. Then He Won Gold for Team USA w/Josh Sweeney
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He goes from “tip of the spear” to starting over in a single blast and he’s painfully honest about what that actually feels like. Watch here at: https://youtu.be/Np6lE6zrtU0 We talk with Josh Sweeney, a United States Marine Corps scout sniper who deploys to Afghanistan, gets hit by an IED, and loses both legs above the knee along with major hand injuries. Josh walks us through the moments people rarely hear about: the delayed medevac, the tourniquets, staying awake because the wrong meds could make him bleed out, and the strange fog of ICU drugs and hallucinations. Then we move into the harder fight: rehab, loss of control, and the identity crisis that hits when the uniform and the body you…