After his three-year obligation was over, he moved back to Utah and attended the Utah College of Massage Therapy. He was in class on September 11, 2001, a day he could not forget. A few months later Turner was part of a team that gave sports massages to Olympic athletes in the Olympic Village during the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, but the events of 9-11 weighed on his mind. “I felt called to go back. I wanted to help save lives. I wanted to be a medic.” Turner was deployed to Iraq, in 2004, with the 4th Infantry Division. It was a difficult assignment, he treated more soldiers than he could count, was on a rooftop when a rocketcomplex post-traumatic stress disorder just as he left for his third deployment, which came in 2011. He earned the Capt. John R. Teal Leadership Award for his outstanding leadership skills, but his PTSD was becoming propelled grenade flew over his head and was in a Humvee when a mortar landed on the hood, but thankfully did not explode. Most of the second deployment was spent training Iraqi soldiers and was diagnosed with
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