In November 2006, Army Sergeant Dennis Cabanting, who we meet in Episode 2, came under insurgent attack from an IED. The shockwaves from the explosion caused a life-altering traumatic brain injury. With failing health, Dennis was medically discharged and eventually ended up in an old folks home at age 36. His mother intervened, brought him to St. Louis and turned to Wounded Warrior Project for help. The poetic, charismatic Hawaiian is now living life on his own terms and striving to walk again.