![]() ![]() ![]() “Some of the items I use to adapt can’t hold as much weight so that must be a good thing, if I’m able to break my bands. “I am missing some of my muscles so it’s a little harder in training, but I just keep at it, and I just keep going to try and get as strong as I can,” he said. Though he is disabled, he is still able to serve in the Air Force. His body took most of the blast, and nearly 80 percent of his body was burned. “If I’m able to do that for somebody else like they did for me, then I did my job.”ĭel Toro, a tactical air control party, or TACP, was injured by an improvised explosive device detonation during a deployment in Afghanistan. I thought I would never be able to get under another bar and bench press until the coach got me under there,” he said. “There could be a guy out there thinking he can’t do this because I was like that. His junior year of high school, his football team won state. That was my biggest goal.”ĭel Toro said he had never weight-lifted before as a sport before his injury just in conjunction with playing baseball, football and soccer in high school and college and while he was in the Air Force. “Mostly, I did it so other people could see that this guy with no fingers and part hands is able to lift 200-and-something pounds of weight and still be out there. “I knew I wasn’t going to win anything because I just got cleared for my shoulder about three weeks ago, so I wasn’t at my top peak,” he said. He was like, ‘I hear you left the great state of Texas?’ I was like, ‘Come on.’”ĭel Toro’s competition began with powerlifting. ![]() ![]() Earlier this year, we went to an event, and he hadn’t seen me since I had left Texas, and he found out that I left Texas. “Every time he sees me, he has something to say to me. “He always busts my chops,” he said about his relation with Bush. For service members with invisible wounds, DT said they need access to care in rural areas, Prince Harry said they should seek help and talk about it early on and Bush said diagnostic tools should be really good and widespread.ĭel Toro spoke about the seriousness of the issue but also joked with Bush, who he’s known since his injury 10 years ago. Throughout the symposium, the leadership, along with Del Toro and Chalmers, brought up the importance of fighting the stigma of invisible wounds such as post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries. ![]()
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