Double-amputee Marine vet joins New York police department

[edjr 5,556]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/double-amputee-marine-vet-joins-york-police-department-165753157.html

 

 

 

BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — The wounded warrior is now a cop — and he'll be walking the beat on titanium legs.

Matias Ferreira, a former U.S. Marine Corps lance corporal who lost his legs below the knee when he stepped on a hidden explosive in Afghanistan in 2011, is joining a suburban New York police department.

The 28-year-old graduated Friday from the Suffolk County Police Academy on Long Island following 29 weeks of training.

The 6-foot-1 (1.9-meter), 215-pound (98-kilogram) rookie passed all the physical training and other requirements just like any other recruit, including running a mile and a half in around 11 minutes. He begins patrols next week, a department spokesman said.

"I just really want to be able to help people," said Ferreira, who immigrated to the U.S. from Uruguay as a child. "I want to be involved in the community, and the police department definitely allows you to do that."

Ferreira was on patrol in Afghanistan on Jan. 21, 2011, when he jumped off a roof in a compound suspected of being a Taliban outpost.

"As soon as I landed I knew something was wrong because it was like a movie almost. I heard a noise and everything went black," he said. A bomb had gone off beneath his legs, amputating both below the knees. "I just saw blood throughout my pants."

He was evacuated to a local hospital. Within days, he was back in the U.S. being treated for his injuries. Three months later he was wearing prosthetic legs.

"I was up and walking in prosthetics and really just starting my new life," he said.

That new life has included many activities he had never tried before the explosion. He has played on a softball team of wounded warriors. He skydives, scuba dives, snowboards and rides a motorcycle.

Raised in Georgia, he met his future wife, Tiffany, when his softball team played a game on Long Island in 2012. The couple now has a 2-year-old daughter.

After working as a steamfitter, welding while hanging off bridges and overpasses, Ferreira decided to take the exam to become a police officer. He scored a perfect 100, and his fellow recruits later elected him class president.

"He has served this great country with outstanding distinction, and will now serve and protect the residents of Suffolk County," Police Commissioner Timothy Sini said in a statement.

Ferreira acknowledges the job will bring challenges, but approaches his new career with a sense of humor. He said he was once asked during academy training whether he has concerns about injuries.

"If I break my leg, I go in the trunk and put on a different one and I keep on going," he said.

He lives by the motto that "life without limbs is limitless."

"The only disability we have is the ones that we make," he said.

 

 

 

Only needs one finger to shoot a black person

[fandandy 3,311]

These people truly amaze me. If I lost both legs I would have prolly curled up into a ball and died. Kudos to him.

[cyclone24 1,814]

These people truly amaze me. If I lost both legs I would have prolly curled up into a ball and died. Kudos to him.

Curled up? You mean nubbed up?

[Hardcore troubadour 12,626]

Highest paid cops around. Ooh Rah!

[wiffleball 4,638]

Highest paid cops around. Ooh Rah!

His salary is half off.

 

 

 

 

Horrible. Great for him!

[cyclone24 1,814]

His salary is half off.

 

 

 

 

Horrible. Great for him!

This thread has some legs

[frank 2,144]

Dead or alive, you're coming with me!

[Hardcore troubadour 12,626]

I hope they don't make him walk the beat.

[wiffleball 4,638]

This thread has some legs

[wiffleball 4,638]

You know the amazing thing? He lost his lower legs, but miraculously kept his feet.

[wiffleball 4,638]

After working as a steamfitter, welding while hanging off bridges and overpasses, Ferreira decided to take the exam to become a police officer. He previously attempted to get a job at a Dude Ranch, but was almost immediately fired after it was discovered that he had lost two calves.

[shotsup 832]

Highest paid cops around. Ooh Rah!

Jealous much ?

[shotsup 832]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/double-amputee-marine-vet-joins-york-police-department-165753157.html

 

 

 

Only needs one finger to shoot a black person

What do you know about blacks and this area of Suffolk ??

 

 

 

 

 

 

But you right. And like HT said highest paid cops around.

[Saint Elistan 106]

This thread has some legs

 

Fock - came here to post this.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,626]

Jealous much ?

Of course. And ooh rah is a something Marines say as a cheer.

[Cloaca du jour 2,064]

They already did this on family guy

[wiffleball 4,638]

They already did this on family guy

[wiffleball 4,638]

[kilroy69 994]

I've seen this one before. He quits the force to become an Olympic athlete and the shoots his model gf through the bathroom door for her constantly singing half the man I used to be at the top of her lungs every time they got into a fight.

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

Heard he tried to sue ISIS but judge said he didn't have a leg to stand on.

[Cruzer 1,992]

That's pretty cool, and one tough sumbiitch for sure.