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Air Force Life Cycle Management Center: First Sergeant Recalls the Power of Words
June 04, 2022
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, June 4 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news:

By Daryl Mayer

"You'll be fine. I've seen worse."

Those were the words of a Walter Reed medical technician to Senior Master Sgt. Ben Seekell some 48 hours after a land mine in Afghanistan forced surgery to remove his lower left leg.

"In retrospect, I'm not sure if that actually even happened, or if I ima . . .

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