At 26 years old, Sgt. 1st Class (Ret.) John Wayne Walding, born on the 4th of July and named after the Western legend, was pinned down on a cliff in Afghanistan’s Shok Valley. Under a storm of machine-gun fire he folded his nearly severed right leg, clamped it between his thighs, applied a tourniquet and kept fighting for four more hours.
In this raw conversation with host Chad Robichaux, Walding unpacks growing up in small-town Texas and shipping off to basic training; the 2003 Iraq invasion, Special Forces selection and the six-hour battle of Shok Valley on April 6, 2008 that earned his Silver Star and cost him his leg. If you need a master-class in resilience, purpose and unshakeable faith, this episode is it.
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