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On the night it all changed, there was an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Baghdad, downtown. Marshall Bahr, who was then an Army Ranger, pulled a man out of a burning truck.<\/p>\n

The man, a fellow Ranger, was in critical condition, the prognosis grim. Bahr, a medic for the elite special operations unit, worked furiously. But on the flight out on the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, the man lost consciousness. Bahr couldn’t help thinking: “He’s just fading away.”<\/p>\n

Still, he got his fellow Ranger to the trauma center alive. “It felt like hours,” Bahr said. “But, it was just seven-and-a half-minutes.” There, the doctors took his report, then politely pushed him aside: “We’ve got it from here,” they told him. <\/p>\n

As he stood there helpless, it hit him: He had to become one of them – a person who can take it the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

He will. Today, he’s a UNMC medical school graduate with a residency in anesthesiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He hopes to land an eventual fellowship in chronic pain medicine.<\/p>\n

Having seen firsthand the physical and mental injuries of returning military veterans, he wants to fight for their proper treatment and a change in national policy of pain management.<\/p>\n

He wants to help returning vets take it the rest of the way. <\/p>\n

Since coming home he’s drawn strength from a network established by the Pat Tillman Foundation. Bahr is one of nearly 350 Tillman Scholars nationwide, people with similar experiences and equally lofty goals.<\/p>\n

That’s important, because no one else knows what it was like to be there, and no one else knows what it is like to be back.<\/p>\n

“As much as you try to explain it,” Bahr said, “no one will truly understand.”<\/p>\n

The Ranger Bahr kept alive that night lost part of an arm, but as this story was being written, he was climbing Aconcagua, one of the world’s tallest peaks. <\/p>\n

Now, as his career begins, Bahr can’t help but dream. Maybe he could work at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Maybe down the line help reform VA health care.<\/p>\n

He knows he wants to be there for returning combat veterans.<\/p>\n

This time he’ll be the one to take it from here.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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