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    Commentary: An IED made me a double amputee, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t continue to serve in the Army

    by Gregory Gadson, Los Angeles Times Nov 27, 2023 3 minutes
    Continuation On Active Duty is a program for soldiers who have been determined unfit by the Army’ s Physical Disability Evaluation System but may remain on active duty nonetheless.

    Over the last 16 years, I’ve managed a major military base, run a government contracting business, appeared in two motion pictures and made motivational speeches before hundreds of audiences all over the country, most notably to the New York Giants when they beat the New England Patriots in the 2008 Super Bowl.

    Do these sound like the accomplishments of a disabled person?

    In 2007 I lost both my legs above the knee in an IED explosion in Iraq. My first job was to recover. But my next task after being wounded

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