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"You'll be fine. I've seen worse."
Those were the words of a Walter Reed medical technician to Senior Master Sgt. Ben Seekell some 48 hours after a land mine in Afghanistan forced surgery to remove his lower left leg.
"In retrospect, I'm not sure if that actually even happened, or if I imagined it," said Seekell, who now serves as the First Sergeant for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. "It was a simple phrase of I guess you could call it encouragement. But I latched onto it. I said this guy thinks I can do it. I needed that. I took that and I ran with it."
It is a lesson that sticks with him still. (U.S. video by Jim Varhegyi)
| Date Taken: | 06.03.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 06.03.2022 14:26 |
| Category: | Interviews |
| Video ID: | 846058 |
| VIRIN: | 220603-F-FC975-2001 |
| Filename: | DOD_109035993 |
| Length: | 00:39:05 |
| Location: | WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OH, US |
| Downloads: | 3 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 3 |
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