Pilot completes third deployment with just a leg
Despite recommendations from medical professionals, Alan left the crutches and wheelchair behind, focusing on being back to normal. He never looked back.
“Attitude is everything, either you’re going to let an injury like this ruin your life or you resume your life,” Major Brown said.
Thanks to his coworkers he returned to work just nine weeks after the accident. He’s found if he’s willing to give everything he has toward a goal, people are willing to give everything they have to assist. One of those goals was getting back in the cockpit of the C-130, reestablishing himself as just another pilot.
“I had invested a lot of time and energy into becoming a pilot,” he said. “I wasn’t about to walk away from the only career I had known.”