Bryant Jacobs was serving in Iraq in 2004 when his vehicle was struck by an IED. “The first thing I remember is the percussion of the bomb blowing up,” he said. “I got blown out of the vehicle and landed on the ground and just tumbled.” Both of his legs had shattered, and he broke his femur about two inches above the knee. Jacobs remembers being transported in the Medevac helicopter and then waking up a few weeks later at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC.