Tough As They Come

was sure he'd become a statistic. It's what most soldiers thought when they went off to war—that they wouldn't live past their 25 th birthday. While on his third tour, Travis was caught in an IED blast four days before his twenty-fifth birthday, sustaining a devastating injury—Travis became one of only five soldiers from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to survive a quadruple amputation. Suddenly forced to reconcile with the fact that he no longer had arms or legs, Travis faced a future drastically different from the one he had imagined for himself.