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Navy All Hands: AGAINST ALL ODDS: THE WILL TO WIN
Defense Media Activity - Navy Production
Dec. 12, 2019 | 1:59
Master Chief Personnel Specialist Ren Hockenberry, currently serving aboard USS Port Royal (CG-73) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was on a site visit at the Marshal Fahim Training Facility in Afghanistan in 2014 when shots were fired. After a two-minute fire fight, Hockenberry had been shot five times; 15 others were also injured or killed.

Nine months of physical therapy and countless surgeries in recovery followed at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, all while Hokenberry’s desire to deploy again slowly grew.
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