Helping a Hero Salutes Texas Wounded Heroes Receiving 2023 Adapted Homes

SSG Travis Strong USA (Ret.)

Injured Nov 27, 2006 - Baghdad, Iraq

Rated 100% P&T Injuries:

-Double above the knee amputee Location Choices: Dallas / Fort Worth T X

SSG Travis Strong grew up north of Los Angeles with his single Mom. He had a passion for speed and adventure, played football as a strong safety, raced dirt bikes and even competed in MMA fighting (open class level). In 1997, he joined the U.S. Army and followed in Strong served in planes hit the serve and after the protect troops in their Strong, the Stryker. Without bomb smoke, the remember experience nothing I could do to stop it.” His right leg was gone and his left leg was mangled. His lungs collapsed. He was fading in and out of consciousness. One soldier to getting this dying sergeant to the field hospital at Liberty..and he could. Strong flat-lined times. He woke up at Camp Liberty and the battalion commander and chaplain reassured him, “You’re still with us, you’re alive.”

As he began his long road to recovery, he endured painful complications from bone growth and skin graphs on his leg. Strong went through every emotion: anger, sadness, depression and despair. But it was at the moment when he made a decision NOT to live life confined to a wheelchair, that Army Strong…became Army STRONG! SSG Travis Strong has embraced his story and shared it with the world. His passion for overcoming adversity and his passion for encouraging others to overcome adversity is inspiring. And he now embraces his name as a birthright and a challenge to prove you can live life and BE STRONG!

SSG Strong loves to challenge people with disabilities to not give in to the pain and quit...but to dream about who they want to be. He volunteers and trains at the Adaptive Training Foundation in Carrollton, TX and finds great fulfillment in helping people to compete in various adaptive sports. His first personal quest was to learn to walk on prosthetics as he wanted to get married standing tall on two legs and not in a wheelchair. He skis, he completed 3 marathons on handbikes, he competes in Spartan races, and every day he commits to live the best life he can.

Helping a Hero is looking forward to building SSG Strong an adapted home that will restore his independence. Strong needs to live close to Worth area where they have family and not too far from the training center in Carrolton. He also would love to own and adaptive day.

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HelpingaHero.org has many Texas heroes on our waiting list. Bass Pro Shops has partnered with Helping a Hero to launch the 100 Homes Challenge and donate 25% of the cost of our next 100 homes. With your donation, large or small, you can help us make these specially adapted homes a reality for more of our Texas heroes by helping us fund the other 75%!