Charlie Linville Biography

Staff Sgt. Linville who joined the Marine Corps two years after high school signed up to become an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician disarming improvised explosive devices or IEDs according to the paper.
On Jan. 20 2011 Linville and his team were tasked with a routine detonation -- not immediately realizing there was an IED hidden beneath another one.
“I remember stepping on it I remember the distorted boom in my ears and being out of it and waking up Linville told the Statesman.
“I can’t say why — my bomb didn’t fully detonate. If it had I would have been a triple amputee and I would have died he said.
Linville lost his right leg below the knee. His quest to climb the 22000-foot peak began while recovering in his hospital bed.
I got blown up and severely wounded and kind of sat in a hospital bed and couldn't figure out what I was going to do with this rest of my life and what could this body that I now have do he told the newspaper. And the answer kind of found me. Hey go try to climb the world's tallest mountain and see if you can be successful.

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