Paralympian supports new generation of wounded warriors

Chris Devlin-Young is a Coast Guard veteran, who became partially paralyzed when his plane ran into a mountainside in 1982. Since then, he's won numerous world ...

In 1982, Chris Devlin-Young was part of a Coast Guard aircrew headed out on a mission to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. His plane crashed, two crewmembers were killed and Devlin-Young was mostly paralyzed from the waist down because of injuries he suffered while he tried to save his friends from the wreckage.

Now, 30 years later, he’s a gold medal winner several times over in the Paralympic winter sport of mono-skiing, and he spends much of his time counseling and supporting a new generation of wounded warriors. He shares that story in this edition of On DoD.

Devlin-Young also discusses how the government’s support for disabled veterans has changed over the last few decades.

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