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[female speaker] I grew up swimming, and so being in the water is kind of second
nature to me. [Jones] Sergeant Randi McCartney
has been training nonstop since she found out that she was selected
to compete in the Warrior Games. I think it's a great way to show people
that just because you're a veteran with a disability, with an injury, doesn't
mean you're not capable of accomplishing greatness.
[Jones] Randi is training harder and longer as the competition grows near.
It's the two hours of my life that I'm the most at peace,
even though my coach over there works my butt off.
He's very strict and doesn't let me give up. [Jones] As tough as her coach is, Sergeant
McCartney wouldn't have it any other way. My coach and my biggest supporter is my husband.
Warm up on the backstroke, and then your 100-meter breaststroke...
[McCartney] He always has to remember that at the end of the day,
no matter how hard he works me, he still has to go home with me.
[Jones] The newlyweds met while being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder
at the Warrior Transition Unit. If I hadn't come to the WTU and he hadn't
come to the WTU, if we hadn't both decided that we really needed
to find help for our injuries, who knows who would be my coach right now?
Maybe nobody. Maybe I would be doing this all by myself.
Or maybe I never would have had the guts to apply for it if it hadn't been for him.
The Wounded Warrior Games is going to be a great way to show the world
what their veterans can accomplish after they've been injured.
[Jones] A great way to show the world and the athletes themselves
what they are capable of after their injuries. Air Force Sergeant Colleen Jones, Ramstein
Air Base, Germany. [♪techno music♪] That's the Army
Today, Washington.