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Rob served in the marines for 5 1/2 years, two tours in afghanistan and iraq. it was while he was in afghanistan that he was fighting as a combat engineer. his job was to detect i.e.d.s. unfortunately on july 22, 2010, he missed one, losing both of his legs. rob could not let any of this slow him down. we caught up with him again in philadelphia yesterday. he's a dedicated athlete. he won a bronze medal in the para olympics in 2014. he has cycled for veterans across country to raise money. and now doing these marathons despite the hardships can lead successful, inspiring lives. >> just because...

Your family has service but your brother. >> my brother was injured out in mosul, iraq. he was injured right above his right here and shattered the skull above his eyebrow all at way around and rendered him quadriplegic. pete: after that happened to him it motivated you to serve it? >> was a promise to him if anything happened to him i would promise what he started. it was to put on the shie legacy you are all combat engineers. >> my dad did nine years as combat engineer and my brother did four years. pete: have you done your part on behalf of this country. now you are here today for the last ...

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A private first class, a combat engineer and did win several awards, including an army good conduct medal as well as an army commendation medal and combatted action badge. when he was captured this afternoon he did have his army identification with him. in august 2016 he was discharged from the army. a couple months later is when he walked into the fbi and they in turn, turned him over to the medical facility. but the family very, very surprised. the aunt tilling reporters, i'm so sad god be merciful. >> he did have bros. andand

Serve one tour in iraq, that was from 2010-2011, february 2011. i would know that that was not a very active time in iraq. that was just before they pulled out at the end of that year. he was a combat engineer, he was separated from the national guard from the alaska national guard for performance we are told by the spokesman out in alaska. he joined the national guard, the puerto rican national guard and 2007 and that is when he deployed to iraq. his family says, has told reporters, he did suffer some mental problems after returning from iraq and what we do know and met dean our producer aske...