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02-04-12, 05:09 PM #1
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Officer passes grueling fitness tests to rejoin his SWAT team less than a year after he lost his lower leg in a motorcycle accident
What an inspiration!A man who lost part of his leg in a motorcycle accident defied all physical limits Friday after passing a grueling fitness test to rejoin his SWAT team, reports Channel 7 WSPA.
Using a permanent prosthetic leg, Keith Soules was required to successfully run a mile in 12 and a half minutes or less, climb a rope, do push-ups and sit-ups and pass a firearms test to qualify for the team, explains the Spartanburg Herald Journal.
More here: Keith Soules, Law Enforcement Officer, Rejoins SWAT Team Despite Losing Leg
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02-04-12, 07:00 PM #2
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Wonderful! Kudos to him!
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02-04-12, 07:06 PM #3
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Indeed! I have previously posted of a California Highway Patrol officer based out of the Sonora, CA office that is a double amputee, having lost his legs in an on duty traffic accident that was able to to return to duty.
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What an inspiration!
It's grueling, but it can be done.
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02-05-12, 03:26 AM #4
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Good lad.
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02-05-12, 04:22 AM #5
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Awesome. Former Marine? Less surprising, but no less awesome.
"If anything worthwhile comes of this tragedy, it should be the realization by every citizen that often the only thing that stands between them and losing everything they hold dear... is the man wearing a badge." -- Ronald Reagan, in the wake of the deaths of 4 CHP troopers in the Newhall Incident, 1970
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02-05-12, 08:43 AM #6
Injustice/Indifference/In God we trust
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Inspiring.
Do not war for peace. If you must war, war for justice. For without justice there is no peace. -me
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02-05-12, 05:52 PM #7
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Way to go , Keith. Your only as handicapped as you want to be.
SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM-Ex-Sheriff Martin Howe to Will Kane in "High Noon"
"It's a great life. You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If your honest , your poor your whole life. And , In the end , you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star."
Far from being a handicap to command, compassion is the measure of it. For unless one values the lives of his soldiers and is tormented by their ordeals , he is unfit to command.
-General Omar Bradley, United States Army
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02-05-12, 06:07 PM #8
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Great job!!
I see things like this and it makes me ashamed for ever thinking or saying "I can't..."*************************"It wouldn't take much for me to up and run...to another life somewhere in the sun."
*************************"There's something inherently wrong with having to put on a bullet-proof vest and a gun to go to work."-(An old friend)
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02-05-12, 08:40 PM #9
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Awesome!
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02-06-12, 11:12 AM #10
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My good friend lost his leg in motor cycle accident as well. He recovered from it and is back doing police work. It was really the most painful and inspiring thing I've seen in my whole life, watching him go through the loss of his limb to being back on the job.
As a matter of fact, this past weekend we were with our police explorers at a competition and I complained about how my knees were bothering me because of the cold damp weather and going up and down stairs all day. He looked at me and smiled. I remembered who I was talking to and shut the hell up. lol"If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." -Gen. George S. Patton
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02-07-12, 02:20 PM #11
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Out-freakin-standing!
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