“One guy had the metal detector, and if anything got a hit we’d check it out,” Gibson said. “We wanted to make sure the rest of the troops moving through were safe. We wanted to make sure it was us first.”
Gibson enlisted in 2005 hoping for a long career in the military following in the footsteps of his two grandfathers.
But all that changed on a spring day in 2012 during his third tour. While on patrol in Panjwayi Province near Kandahar in Afghanistan, Gibson knelt down on top of on an IED, which detonated.
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“It’s been great. I can finally do the laundry, help out, and do the work. I don’t know if that’s a good thing,” he says with a laugh.
Gibson’s spirit seems truly unbreakable.
“I just want to show people there is life after a traumatic event. There’s always a way to move on,” he said.
