The Green Beret Who Lost His Leg and Returned to Combat | Nick Lavery
About this episode
Nick Lavery shares his journey of overcoming adversity as the first above-the-knee amputee to return to combat with a U.S. Army Special Forces team.
Some people survive adversity. Nick Lavery went back for more. Richard Taite sits down with Chief Warrant Officer Nick Lavery, an active-duty Green Beret, Silver Star recipient, and the first above-the-knee amputee in history to return to combat with a U.S. Army Special Forces team. After losing his leg in Afghanistan in 2013 during the most catastrophic insider attack of the Global War on Terror, Nick refused a medical retirement, spent a year recovering at Walter Reed, passed a grueling 15-week assessment, and deployed back to Afghanistan for full-spectrum combat operations. Nick and Richard talk about rebuilding identity after loss, how faith carried him through recovery, why veterans struggle to ask for help, the double edge of the warrior mindset, and what he learned from losing nearly a dozen brothers in combat — and three times that number outside of it. Nick also opens up about retiring after 20 years of service, the identity crisis that follows when the uniform comes off, and building his next chapter through MCHN, the human performance company he founded. Nick is the founder of MCHN, CEO of Precision Components LLC, and bestselling author of Objective Secure: The…
People in this episode
Host: Richard Taite
Guest: Nick Lavery
Topics covered
- adversity
- military service
- identity
- veterans
- recovery
- combat operations
Keywords
- Green Beret
- amputee
- combat
- veterans
- recovery
- identity crisis
- military
- faith
- adversity
- goal achievement
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: MCHN, Precision Components LLC
Books & works: Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement
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