By ABBY DREY | Centre Daily Times | Published: April 18, 2021 SPRING MILLS, Pa. (Tribune News Service) Sgt. Adam Hartswick and RJ Shirey call each other brothers, though they only met four years ago. The best family is the family you choose, Hartswick said with a laugh earlier this month in his Spring Mills home, as he and Shirey lounged with their prosthetic legs on the ottoman. The State College Area High School alums who graduated nine years apart were brought together after two accidents and dozens of surgeries that left them both amputees. While their trauma experiences were very different Hartswick s injuries occurred in May 2013 in Afghanistan; Shirey s hunting accident happened three years later in Centre County each showed grit and determination that helped save their lives, and now they re drawing on those experiences to help others.
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Two Airmen with the
93rd Air Ground Operations Wing saved a man from a near-drowning incident at Madison Blue Springs State Park, Florida, March 27.
After completing a mission readiness exercise the weekend prior, Senior Airman Jeremy Rowland, 822nd Base Defense Squadron security forces squad systems operator, and Airman 1st Class Colin Bracken, 822nd BDS security forces fire team member, spent their day swimming at the spring when they noticed a man struggling to swim, later identified as a Valdosta State University student.
“We d only been in the water maybe 10, 15 minutes, just relaxing, and just out of the corner of our eyes, we both looked over and saw him bobbing up and down,” Bracken said.
Two Airmen with the
93rd Air Ground Operations Wing saved a man from a near-drowning incident at Madison Blue Springs State Park, Florida, March 27.
After completing a mission readiness exercise the weekend prior, Senior Airman Jeremy Rowland, 822nd Base Defense Squadron security forces squad systems operator, and Airman 1st Class Colin Bracken, 822nd BDS security forces fire team member, spent their day swimming at the spring when they noticed a man struggling to swim, later identified as a Valdosta State University student.
“We’d only been in the water maybe 10, 15 minutes, just relaxing, and just out of the corner of our eyes, we both looked over and saw him bobbing up and down,” Bracken said.