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This whole week has been fantastic just

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to have that camaraderie outside of a

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life of service , being retired and to

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be able to meet with other airmen who

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can understand a little bit of the

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things that we've all gone through

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together and just to work together as a

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team towards feeling all together has

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just been fantastic to have that sense

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of team work and have that sense of

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being able to move forward together .

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And that no one's truly alone , pull

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this lever back that's sticking up

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until you feel it click , it might be

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all ready and then just go ahead and

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push it down all the way . So every

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time you shoot , whether it's dry fire

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or live fire , there's single shot

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pistols . How has adaptive sports

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helped my recovery ? I have always been

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competitive since I was young . And

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adaptive sports helped me relieve

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stress . Worked on my mental state as

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far as being in the moment the coaches

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helped me to compete in every sport

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with the right technique . Even though

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I've been doing this since I was young ,

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not necessarily , I had the right

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techniques . So my goal is not

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necessarily to win medals . But to get

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personal records , gonna aim , aligning

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our sights and then we're gonna slowly ,

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slowly , slowly put pressure on the

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trigger and the arrow's gonna launch

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down range . I would say to

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take the leap and sign up . I was

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nervous about a lot of things coming

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into this , especially wheelchair rugby

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and wheelchair basketball . And those

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have been some of my favorite

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activities that we've done and I

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thought that there were going to be

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things that I wouldn't be able to do .

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And there's a lot of ways that you can

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adapt to things adaptive sports has

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really opened me up and , and helped my

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recovery to , to be a teammate and ,

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and just to be an overall better person

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and , and it feels great to be part of

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this .