in the back of the book segment tonight, as you know, the factor has been on a mission to get our wounded veterans high-tech track chairs. here to tell us about the difference it can make in a wounded vet s life are two heroes who use them. marine sergeant jack pierce, injured severely in afghanistan and sergeant first class john rogers, injured in between combat tours. gentlemen, thank you for your service. we love you here at the o reily factor and across the country. jack, start with you. first of all, take us back to january 9, 2010, in helmand province. we were doing a resupply convoy, insurgents had buried 400 pounds of sentec under the
combat tours. gentlemen, thank you for your service. we love you here at the o reily factor and across the country. jack, start with you. first of all, take us back to january 9, 2010, in helmand province. we were doing a resupply convoy, insurgents had buried 400 pounds of sentec under the road. i knew immediately i was paralyzed. i just was trying to get on the radios and let everybody know we were hit and get somebody in there to help us out. so you are immediately paralyzed. you certainly didn t know at that point what your life would have in store. fast forward, and a track chair, up until o reily really started getting into this, and helping raise money for 50 of these chairs, they are expensive, people didn t know what they
in the back of the book segment tonight, as you know, the factor has been on a mission to get our wounded veterans high-tech track chairs. here to tell us about the difference it can make in a wounded vet s life are two heroes who use them. marine sergeant jack pierce, injured severely in afghanistan and sergeant first class john rogers, injured in between combat tours. gentlemen, thank you for your service. we love you here at the o reily factor and across the country. jack, start with you. first of all, take us back to january 9, 2010, in helmand province. we were doing a resupply convoy, insurgents had buried 400 pounds of sentec under the
below zero fahrenheit. we have the latest to clarify military death benefits for reservists and it has grown from one particular case. national security correspondent jennifer griffin joins us with the story from the pentagon. good evening. good evening. catch tan sampson luke was on a two-day training mission with the the arkansas national guard on january 9, 2010. his supervisor gave him permission to go home to sleep at night in his greenwood arkansas home 12-miles from fort chaffey after a grueling day of heavy labor with his unit. his heart stopped that night and he died. the military won t pay the death benefits because he was not technically on base when he died. this wasn t any soldier. it was 34-year-old father of four. he had deployed twice to iraq and was given the bronze star for bravery and heroism.
we have the latest to clarify military death benefits for reservists and it has grown from one particular case. national security correspondent jennifer griffin joins us with the story from the pentagon. good evening. good evening. catch tan sampson luke was on a two-day training mission with the the arkansas national guard on january 9, 2010. his supervisor gave him permission to go home to sleep at night in his greenwood arkansas home 12-miles from fort chaffey after a grueling day of heavy labor with his unit. his heart stopped that night and he died. the military won t pay the death benefits because he was not technically on base when he died. this wasn t any soldier. it was 34-year-old father of four. he had deployed twice to iraq and was given the bronze star for bravery and heroism.