Nick Lavery: The Green Beret Who Lost His Leg & Refused to Let His Story End | AJ Buckley Show
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Nick Lavery shares his inspiring journey of resilience after losing his leg in combat and his determination to redefine his life and career.
What happens when you lose your leg in combat and everyone tells you your career is over, but you decide that's just the beginning? This week on The AJ Buckley Show, AJ sits down with Nick Lavery, a Green Beret who embodies everything this podcast stands for: faith, family, fatherhood, freedom, and fitness. Nick's story isn't just about survival. It's about refusing to let tragedy define you and betting everything on an impossible comeback. Nick opens up about growing up as a small, insecure kid in Boston who was bullied and bounced around schools every year, yearning to be strong and respected. That yearning led him to a Marine Corps recruiter in high school, then to college football, and ultimately to September 11th, 2001, the day that changed everything. Watching the towers fall ignited a fire in Nick that sent him straight into the Special Forces pipeline with one mission: get to the tip of the spear, get payback, and get out. But then he fell in love with being a Green Beret, and everything changed. In 2013, Nick's leg was shot off by a machine gun in Afghanistan, fired by someone he had trained, someone who also killed three of his brothers and wounded seven others. Most…
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