Profiles of Valor: SSgt Johnny 'Joey' Jones (USMC)

In the first months of his deployment, then-SSgt Jones disarmed 85 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and rendered neutral thousands of pounds of bulk explosives. But number 86 was a problem.
In his words: “On my third deployment, five months of disarming bombs in the southern Helmand Province of Afghanistan came to an end when I stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED). In one step, my life and the lives of those closest to me were changed forever. When I woke up in Germany a few days later, both of my legs had been amputated above the knee, my right arm was in pieces without any feeling, and my left wrist was crushed.”