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Forging Resilience

Forging Resilience

S3 Ep115 Mark Ormrod: Rebuilding From Zero

· 55 min · Season 3 Episode 115

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Mark Ormrod knelt on an IED on Christmas Eve, 2007. Two legs gone above the knee. One arm gone above the elbow. The UK's first triple amputee to survive Afghanistan.
This isn't that story. Not really. It's what came after.
Mark talks about the Royal Marine recruiting line he heard as a teenager "it's a mindset." He didn't understand what that actually meant until rehab. Prosthetics. A blank sheet. Nothing left to fall back on.
He also talks about the year before that. Homeless, nearly jailed, working nightclub doors, living off cash in an envelope. Less than twelve months after being an…

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