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Scuba Rejuvenation
R
emember the magic you felt
the first time you stuck a
regulator in your mouth and
took a breath underwater?
That first taste of scuba means even more
to some of our wounded veterans. To
them it can literally be life changing.
According to U.S. Department of
Defense reports, more than 47,000 of
our military service members were
wounded in Operation Iraqi Freedom
(Iraq) and Operation Enduring Freedom
(Afghanistan) between 2001 and 2011.
More than 1,300 personnel lost an arm or
leg to combat injuries, and many others
have become paraplegic or quadriplegic
due to spinal-cord damage. We owe