At Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty from the Armstrong and Getty show there are some really good people are injured military men and women who really need our help our warrior foundation freedom station fundraiser aims to do that

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So I have been attempting to warm up a little bit. Oh

musically with the fiddle. I think you're a little flat and we're gonna do that probably coming up here in a little bit we'll set a little mini goal. I will play the violin fiddle if you will. You know they're actually exactly the same thing. It's just a bit.

I don't actually play. I don't know how to play and I will play it until we raise a certain amount of money for where foundation freedom station. Now what is that all about? Well that's what we're gonna tell you now. Yeah it is an organization that helps some of our warriors at the time they needed the most whether it is physical injuries, amputations, push traumatic stress. So we met a lot of beautiful beautiful guys who are trying to bounce back from that. Traumatic brain injury or warriors transitioning is a lot of

civilian life and just when they needed the most there's this incredible organization that is all volunteers that pinches your panties like crazy to help out in whatever way they need and we're just so proud and so happy to support it.

Hoseway better on is a gentleman we have met in the years past. It's good to see again. Hoseway how are you?

Get like within an inch of the mic if you can do that. Um you're a marine medically retired.

Um can you tell us about you know your service and when you got injured and what happened and we'll just go from there if that's okay.

Yeah so I was stationed with the hotel in fit Marines out of Camp Pendleton and we deployed in 2010 to Afghanistan and October 21st is when I stepped on an ID lost my left leg and my left eye.

Do you have no and then tell us about the recovery how long how many operations that sort of thing well from there um I think it was like seven days later I woke up I had no idea I got through Germany and another hospital and I ended up at but that's the at the Naval Medical Center in Maryland and the East Coast and that's when I met my wife there and from there the recovery started I was there for a month and I was I need to go home.

And they're like what do you live I'm like you know San Diego so they flew me back to San Diego I ended up at the Naval Hospital in San Diego and that's where I did two years of recovery learning how to walk trying to get my vision back trying to see what I was going to get on my right eye what was left.

And you know with with prescription glasses I was able to get 20 on one night and my left I was just completely blind. Yeah that's really cool you're close to home because I know you know there are

young men and women from all over America at Balboa so that's really cool.

How old were you at this point so I was 21 21 21 and where's freedom station coming to your life so freedom station comes into my life when

I already I'm still active duty they send me to base housing and me my wife because I don't want to live in the barracks and I was surrounded by active duty military but they were

I was a little timid because I'm you know 21 I just lost my leg my left eye and now I'm scared to come out you know to the world and and what are people going to think how people going to look at me and my neighbors are just you know regular able body military guys.

So I met Sandy at one of the fundraisers that she was doing we're talking about Sandy Lombkuhler yes and in a warrior foundation freedom station so I met them at a at a fundraiser and I saw that she had a poster with the freedom station.

Picture and I was like what is this place and she explained there's a place you know where people guys you know that are going through a similar situation like you can come and transition and you know to help you save money and you know just get ready for for the world after the military and I was like man you know do they take a married couple because during that time it was me and my wife and we were the first married couple to get to the freedom station and I was just a little like I think I'm going to be a little bit more active.

I'm going to take us a night and she took us right away and then from there I saw my neighbors were guys in my unit too that had lost limbs and it was just a community that I was like man I'll wake up in the morning there's a guy next to me that lives next to me that's missing three limbs there's a guy next to me that's missing another one so I'm like I feel a lot comfortable and I feel like that was the best part of my recovery it was just surrounding myself with guys that were going through the similar situation as me.

I can't imagine.

Yeah that's that's got to be incredibly important.

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