Cuba
01-10-2016, 13:54
This is a question to the QPs. First off much respect to all of the Quiet Professionals on this forum, as a grateful American, I thank you all for your service and sacrifice to this great nation. My questions are if any one of you QPs ever recovered from an open compound fracture in your lower legs such as a tibia fracture? How did they fix your fracture? Did it happen while serving in the ARMY and did you get to return to your original duties as an SF soldier on a team?
Here is a little background on my questions; I’ve been on this website since about 2012. I was interested in serving my country and after reading the SF mission I made the decision that is exactly what I wanted to do with my career in the military. I had many 25 M targets in my way since 2012 but I wrote down my goals and plans and kept knocking them out one by one even with some obstacles in the way. It’s been a long road to be “qualified” just to serve after many stupid mistakes in my youth.
Everything was going fine until Chandler enacted the tattoo ban right as I was going to enlist in 2014. I was kind of bummed and depressed about it but figured with time rules can change. While I was patiently waiting and training, I broke my tibia, August 2014. A tow truck ran over my leg in a hit and run and caused an open compound fracture on my right tibia. The leg snapped like if someone broke some sugar cane and the bone came out of the inner part of my right leg. I had two surgeries; the first was the placement of an external fixator. It’s like a cage around the leg; they drilled into my ankles and into the shinbone keeping the leg in place with this device. The doctors had fears about infection since the bone popped out of my leg and I had to drag myself to safety in the middle of the street. The second surgery was the placement of a titanium rod into my tibia held in place by screws in the lower portion of the leg and the knee.:boohoo
Recovery was long and painful but I have been slowly but surely getting better. I am lifting weights, running although not as fast as I want to be just yet and I will start getting back into rucking. My knee does hurt but it doesn’t hurt enough that I feel I can’t withstand the pain. I am trying to see if I can remove the hardware because I think it will make my knee feel better.
I am 28 years old and I turn 29 years old this September 2016. It’s like a do or die year for me to enlist and try out for SF because I know the deadline is 29 years old. I want to enlist as a REP 63 for the National Guard. So besides my question above, I read somewhere the recruitment age for SF selection for National Guard was 34? Is this true or is it still 29 years as the cut off age for Selection? What I’ve read on here says one thing and the National Guard website says another.
Just to make something clear, if I am not fit for duty as an SF soldier I am still enlisting into the National Guard as a Regular Infantry soldier. My motive is not just to serve as an SF soldier but to serve my country.:lifter
Thank you all in advance for your time.
Here is a little background on my questions; I’ve been on this website since about 2012. I was interested in serving my country and after reading the SF mission I made the decision that is exactly what I wanted to do with my career in the military. I had many 25 M targets in my way since 2012 but I wrote down my goals and plans and kept knocking them out one by one even with some obstacles in the way. It’s been a long road to be “qualified” just to serve after many stupid mistakes in my youth.
Everything was going fine until Chandler enacted the tattoo ban right as I was going to enlist in 2014. I was kind of bummed and depressed about it but figured with time rules can change. While I was patiently waiting and training, I broke my tibia, August 2014. A tow truck ran over my leg in a hit and run and caused an open compound fracture on my right tibia. The leg snapped like if someone broke some sugar cane and the bone came out of the inner part of my right leg. I had two surgeries; the first was the placement of an external fixator. It’s like a cage around the leg; they drilled into my ankles and into the shinbone keeping the leg in place with this device. The doctors had fears about infection since the bone popped out of my leg and I had to drag myself to safety in the middle of the street. The second surgery was the placement of a titanium rod into my tibia held in place by screws in the lower portion of the leg and the knee.:boohoo
Recovery was long and painful but I have been slowly but surely getting better. I am lifting weights, running although not as fast as I want to be just yet and I will start getting back into rucking. My knee does hurt but it doesn’t hurt enough that I feel I can’t withstand the pain. I am trying to see if I can remove the hardware because I think it will make my knee feel better.
I am 28 years old and I turn 29 years old this September 2016. It’s like a do or die year for me to enlist and try out for SF because I know the deadline is 29 years old. I want to enlist as a REP 63 for the National Guard. So besides my question above, I read somewhere the recruitment age for SF selection for National Guard was 34? Is this true or is it still 29 years as the cut off age for Selection? What I’ve read on here says one thing and the National Guard website says another.
Just to make something clear, if I am not fit for duty as an SF soldier I am still enlisting into the National Guard as a Regular Infantry soldier. My motive is not just to serve as an SF soldier but to serve my country.:lifter
Thank you all in advance for your time.