soldier had to undergo 30 surgeries and lost his leg in an act of bravery after selflessly diving in front of his comrade who was getting shot with a machine gun.Nick Lavery, 39, is a Green Beret – the US equivalent of the SAS – who in 2013 became an amputee after getting shot while on tour in Afghanistan.He decided to enlist in the US army right after 9/11, while he was still at university.Over a decade later, during his second combat rotation in Afghanistan, his life would change forever when he would get shot a number of times in his right leg.Speaking on The Hive's Veteran Stories series on YouTube, the 39-year-old said: "Throughout this deployment we were working with the conventional Afghan national army and we were getting ready to.
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