surgeries to repair what was left of my leg and wait for my prosthetic to be fitted. When they asked me what kind I wanted, I wanted (3/21)

whatever one I could workout the best with. I was determined to get back to how I was prior to the blast. The docs were great and (4/21)

helped get me fitted for a traditional prosthetic and a fitness one. PT was long and grueling, worse than special op training. Partly (5/21)

because I mentally knew I could do these things they had me doing. It was probably the hardest six months of my life. Yet while I (6/21)

would collapse in my bed at night, my mind kept racing as to what I would do now that I was medically discharged.   One night after (7/21)

a particularly hard therapy session, the idea to start a security firm came to me. I had planned to be career military. I had nothing (8/21)

but myself to worry about. My parents died in a car crash right after I enlisted. No siblings. The Marines were my family and now I (9/21)

had lost that. So I threw myself into researching and planning. The name came to me in a dream. I was a phoenix, rising from the (10/21)

ashes of the attack. I contacted Radar, Scar, Twin and Possum, the remaining men from my squad to see if they would be up for it. (11/21)

Radar and Twin were in. Possum was too far gone with PTSD to even talk to and Scar needed time. All of us had been medically (12/21)

discharged. We all had degrees of injuries to recover from. I got it. At least I had two on board to start with. I got out of (13/21)

rehab and went boots to the ground on getting my firm up. I had picked out a location central to where we all were which just so (14/21)

happen to be Georgia. Our office was in a little strip mall on the outskirts of Savannah. Close enough to the city to bring in big (15/21)

clients but remote enough to be under the radar. A few months after we got off the ground, I got a call from my former Major. They (16/21)

needed a team with our talents for a job in Mexico. Sex trafficking. Off the books but with a handsome pay out. I told him we weren't (17/21)

that kind of security. He told me to go over the file he emailed, think about it and get back to him. I brought the offer to my (18/21)

guys, six now with Scar, Logan and Mason. After going over the file and coming up with a plan we were going wheels up to Mexico. The (19/21)

rest is history. No longer strictly a security firm, we now did black ops for the government. Cases they didn't want on the books. We (20/21)

were damn good at what we did and it felt good to be part of the family again.- #PhoenixRising (21/21)

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