HELPING HEROES
but I don’t look at it that way. I was the first Grenadier Guard amputee to stand guard at the tower of London and I run everywhere, so I see this as just another thing to get on with.’
Overcoming the limits In March, Royal Marine Pete Dunning, who lost both his legs in an IED blast in Afghanistan, represented his country by carrying the Olympic torch to open the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, Canada.
Speaking of his experiences, he recalls:
‘I’ve never been a person to let myself get down so I decided to just get on with things. I started rehabilitation at Headley Court which really helped me get going.’ Lance Corporal Dunning then got in-
volved with Battle Back. ‘Skiing oppor- tunities came up with Battle Back and I decided that, as I hadn’t done it before, it would be interesting to find out how I would do it,’ Dunning says. ‘We went to Bavaria for two weeks to learn how to ski and it was definitely difficult to learn it, but once I’d got it, there was no stop- ping me!’ There are hundreds of servicemen and
women who have benefited from the Bat- tle Back programme. Major Martin Col- clough, who runs Battle Back, believes it’s a particularly important part of the reha- bilitation process. He explains: ‘If they liked doing this
kind of thing before, chances are they’ll still want to do it. We are achieving our goal of working with some of our most profoundly disabled personnel and we will continue to develop this capability to see many more successes.’ •
If you’d like to know more about the Battle Back programme, please visit:
General information:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/ WhatWeDo/TrainingandExercises/BattleBack/
Adventurous Training:
www.army.mod.uk/battlebackat
Sport:
www.army.mod.uk/battlebacksport
Email:
DMRC-SO2BattleBack@mod.uk
Lance Corporal Pete Dunning carrying the Paralympic torch
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