Miscellaneous
On this episode I have Ken Blaisdell and this is his story. My name is Kenneth Blaisdell; I joined the Army when I was 20. I went to basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. From Basic Training, I went to Fort Rucker, Alabama for 9 weeks to learn my job as an Aviation Operation Specialist. I couldn’t have been happier; I got my dream duty station Fort Wainwright Alaska. Things couldn’t go any better; I was able to go to the one state I always wanted to explore. Shortly after getting to C Co. 1-52nd Aviation Regiment, Flying Dragons, Dustoff, I was told I would be deploying to Afghanistan in 2014 for 9 months. I ran 9-line missions while deployed, which means when someone got hurt, I would launch the crews to save the wounded, but also got to go on the missions to help the medics. I got taken out of the fight two times due to severe stomach problems from eating the local food. It’s now to the point if I eat the wrong food at the wrong time, I will become physically ill for as many as two to three weeks and end up in the hospital. I was in the United States Army until 2016, but shortly after I got back from Afghanistan was when I suffered life-altering injuries from a car accident and a sledding accident. Everything slowly unfold, I went to a walker then a wheelchair. I had broken bones in my feet, my feet were curled and bent inwards; I couldn’t walk, and my legs started to bow outwards. I could feel my bones when they broke over and over again. I waited six months at Fort Wainwright until they started the med board process. My dream of serving 20 years was crushed. 100 Seconds by Punch Deck | https://soundcloud.com/punch-deck Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US