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Welcome to the Medevac podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Christian Myers. I'm joined today by my co-host David Reed.

And we have a special guest today, Curtis Johnson. He's a former Army combat engineer who is injured in Iraq 2008. He's a double amputee below the knees.

And we're going to talk about his mission today, what he's done to recover, and how he's still serving the community as well.

So Curtis, welcome. Thank you very much. Welcome to the show. Curtis, join us. Christian Babe. Yes.

It has been quite some time since the last time I've seen you. I mean, I met you probably in 2015. And you look incredible, man.

He lost a lot of weight and you look great. And you're doing some awesome things. I'll do probably about 115 pounds since then.

It's amazing. It's amazing. It's been a ride. It's been a ride. Yeah. And when I'd met you, I'd had, I guess it was the first of two revisions on my wife's legs.

So it's been shortened a couple of times. Yeah. Yeah. I was struggling and then when you started working out with you, like, shake your way better way faster.

So, so another Army guy, which is good for me. Air Force, I mean, which I can't say anything.

I was born on an Air Force base. I work on an Air Force. We employ you now. So, so what did you do in the Army, man?

Which, so it's fired you to join? I was a combat engineer in the Army. Combat engineers. At the time, the training consisted of, you know, basic soldier task.

But then the, the, the MOS was mines clearing minefields clearing lanes, urban breachings. We learned to breach with shotguns, demo.

And we did the water impulse charges. We did the suit charges. I am listed in 2005. I graduated high school in 2004, went to college for a year.

I heard everybody telling their stories about what they were doing in the world. And my dad was active duty and I was going to school on base at night.

And it's like, man, all right. I'm ready to go do something nice. And it's weird how I landed on the MOS that I did. And it was basically like going down the list of stuff not going right.

Yeah. I had originally tried to enlist in the Navy. All my buddies were joining the Navy. And I was standing in the kitchen with my dad. And we were talking about joining the military.

And he'd been enlisted in an officer in the Army and the Air Force. And he's still in the Air Force now.

Yeah. And that's incredible.

It basically boiled down to you want a job, join the Air Force.

Yeah. You want to have fun joining Army. You join the Navy.

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