That didn’t stop her from taking up rowing, powerlifting, cycling and swimming. “I lost a lot of muscle in my right leg, so from the knee down, I wear a device … to assist with walking it takes the pressure off my tibia,” she said. Hockenberry still wears a leg brace to help her walk. “This is a harsh reality of what that action could be. “A lot of young troops out there go out there and are like ‘I just want a piece of the action,'” she said. While she was in Afghanistan, she said she visited 11 different forward operating bases, including her own, and talked to troops serving there. “They take service members who were injured in Iraq and Afghanistan back,” Hockenberry said, explaining that she was the first women to participate in the program. In 2016, she got the chance to return to Afghanistan as part of Operation Proper Exit, a non-military trip sponsored by the Troops First Foundation. Hockenberry then returned to Walter Reed for another nine months for more surgery and rehab. She did outpatient rehab for about six months at Walter Reed and then spent six months at Tripler Army Medical Center as an outpatient.
“That laptop made me stop being a patient and put the power of being a senior chief back.” “That laptop was huge to me,” Hockenberry recalls. She was in inpatient care at Walter Reed for four months, where she soon asked for a laptop so she could continue working. “Through the help of a lot of people, I managed to come back and now … I am back on a ship hopefully showing that an injury or an illness doesn’t stop you from continuing.”īut Hockenberry’s journey to recovery was not an easy path. “I was severely injured, to the point where medical retirement made sense, but I can’t imagine not serving in the military it’s part of who we are and my fellow brothers and sisters in the military, we all believe in what we do, and to not stand with them is something that I couldn’t imagine,” Hockenberry said. In four months, she plans to participate in the Invictus Games in Sydney, Australia. While at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, “people tended to assume that I would be medically retired I can understand why, but I just didn’t see it.”įour years later, she won eight gold medals in the recent Warrior Games in Colorado Springs and now serves on the USS Port Royal at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was shot once in the groin and twice in the stomach. Hockenberry suffered two gunshot wounds to the right leg, shattering her tibia.
“We stopped for our last briefing of the day, and one of the Afghan soldiers just opened fire through a window,” she told reporters at the Pentagon Wednesday describing the green-on-blue attack that wounded 13 other military personnel that day. Hockenberry was part of a group visiting a basic training facility for Afghan soldiers. She was serving as the senior enlisted leader position for Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan.
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Related: The 8 Greatest Eddie Murphy Movies of All Time Discover the History You Missed.Īnd so much more! One Cracked Fact delivers one new story from the worlds of history, science and pop culture, directly to your inbox every day.Navy Master Chief Raina Hockenberry remembers everything from that day in 2014 when an Afghan soldier shot her five times. Or check out the badasses who opted to just spit in Death's face, in The 11 Most Badass Last Words Ever Uttered. Check out those men (and a lady) who were impervious to death in 7 Historical Figures Who Were Absurdly Hard To Kill. Sometimes killing a dozen men at once isn't what makes you badass, but how a dozen men failed at killing you. Murphy was afraid people would see the complete insane awesomeness the story had to offer, and think he was embellishing or trying to cash in on his fame, so he actually had them take parts out for fear that they wouldn't be believable to a Hollywood audience.
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When some Hollywood producer wanted to make a movie based on Murphy's autobiography, he was determined to have Murphy play himself in the film. That's right, they actually needed a movie about a giant, man-eating, shark to top Audie Murphy's awesomeness. The movie was the highest-grossing film Universal made, a record it held for 20 years until the making of Jaws. In To Hell and Back, Audie Murphy plays Audie Murphy, a badass war hero who proves his worth on the battlefield with his awesome badassery. Audie Murphy (Audie Murphy) from To Hell and Back:
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