Darrell's and my friendship was... we constantly hung out, we were always with each other.

We ended up in the same gun truck and then from there on we literally **** ate dinner together, we **** together, we partied together.

But it's been five years since I've seen him last.

Last time I've seen him... he was blue in the face, he's bleeding to death.

I cried for two week straight.

I was one of the last people to see him take his last steps.

Being in the military injured, it's a hard thing to deal with when you're getting out in the real world all by yourself.

Working with Homeland Security Hero Child Rescue Corps is a group of veterans whose service kind of got cut short overseas and bring them into law enforcement to track down child sexual predators.

My job is to forensically extract evidence off cellular devices.

Some guys will actually remote wipe their phone.

So like send a code to their phone and it'll wipe all the data.

I just had a phone a couple weeks ago, someone was trying to wipe it and a message came across the screen that said "Go f*** yourself."

This job this has been an absolute godsend to my life.

A lot of people are like, "You got wounded overseas you shouldn't have to work another day in your life."

And I was like, but i need to.

I was like, I don't need my mind to go off the deep end and go into this dark world that a lot of veterans fall into.

After I get blown up and I don't remember... Everything just started to blank out.

My biggest goal was to be up and walking and standing and watch my boys come off the plane.

And I fought very, very hard.

And very, very long days with physical therapy, learning to walk.

The day we got back, I'm getting off the airplane and I see Justin standing at the bottom of the stairs.

I mean I was scared.

That was one of the reasons why we didn't talk as much.

And I didn't know if I was ready to like be that emotional support.

I was still feeling guilty because I told him that if he left the country I would leave with him and nothing would happen.

If something happened to him, it would happen to me.

I feel like it was all...it was my fault.

Do you want to see your brother?

Justin.

Hi.

Paige is the love of my life.

We met at a restaurant that had fifty percent off for law enforcement.

She was always our waitress.

And I finally got the courage to go in there just to see her.

She came over and she never left.

Domestic life in general is still all weird to me.

Even in the hospital, I was sleeping on the floor.

I couldn't sleep in a bed.

No, I slept good overseas.

I don't sleep good here.

I mean I'm just trying to fit in.

I'm just trying to be normal.

I loved being in Afghanistan.

I mean I deployed three times in less than four years, that doesn't happen.

I mean I was skin and bones back in the day.

I was just all about sweeping and finding IEDs That's what I love to do.

I talked to a lot of guys in my platoon, like after I got hit.

The guys want to take their own lives because I lost my legs.

If it would have been like one of them, I'd be gone.

I would have taken my own life.

I decided after you got hit, they asked the question right away, they said who wants to sweep?

I was single at the time.

I wasn't married yet.

I was like, if Justin is good enough to give his life to the country why not me.

After me Darrell found multiple IEDs.

That's not even his job.

He picked up my military integrity.

He did what he had to do to serve the country.

I mean that takes a lot of balls.

That takes a lot of balls to do.

I mean it's not easy... Was he serving his country or was he serving his friends?

He was serving me, I think.

It was rough.

Because I felt like I owed him Even though I was paying my dues, I felt like I owed him.

Because I told him, I was like, if he was ever to leave this country he was leaving with me.

And he left the country, but he wasn't with me.

So it was rough.

People don't realize that bond.

They don't get it.

And Darrell and I have a really close bond and it's something civilians don't understand.

The person that you're bleeding and sweating with in battle.

It's almost closer than like brother sister type of stuff.

So that's why I look forward to going to work every day just to be with the guys I work with.

I work with a bunch of other veterans and stuff and it's good to have that camaraderie still and everything.

Kind of makes me feel like I'm back in the military.

What drives me the most was the fact that how many kids lives I'm saving.

There's actually a rare creature.

Check out the crazy creature.

That's my friend Nathan.

Those pictures of those tragedies that we see everyday, though it's painful and it's sad but we talk among each other.

We're a team.

I was in a wheelchair for a long time and I think both of us we have accomplished more after we got injured than before.

There was a case, I ended up rescuing over 130 kids, all from one case, who were being sexually exploited online.

130 I can't talk to my girlfriend about that stuff even though she wants me to talk to her about it.

I can tell her everything that's going on in my mind, but I don't think she is mentally prepared to like hear what I have to say.

Whenever I go out of town for training or something I'll be gone for two weeks I could 100 percent not talk to her the whole time.

It would be perfectly fine.

But that's a life I'm used to, she's not used to that.

Hi!

What's up, I got you flowers too.

So I have to train myself.

Like hey, Justin you're in a relationship, you love this girl, you need to talk to her.

Got another visit over and seeing Justin and I finally got to say the things I wanted to say to him.

And he said don't ever feel bad.

If you're down and out just give me a phone call.

I'm a phone call away.

Let me know.

So I'll be leaving this with a positive look on everything.

I'm getting ready for another deployment, number four, in the middle east again.

And hopefully this time I'll come back with... all my guys.

I'll talk to you before I head out.

I'll see you on Tinder or whatever.

(Laughter) Love you.

Thank you for everything man.

I'll see you soon.

I'll plan a hunting trip when I get back.

You can't change nothing now.

You just got to just move forward.

So I'm going move forward.

I'm living my life as like a second chance.

You never know what's gonna happen.

You never know what step is going to be your last.