Iraq veteran, double amputee, in new Battleship movie

Col. injured in Iraq lands role in ‘Battleship’
By Scott Bowles
USA Today
Posted : Thursday May 17, 2012

LOS ANGELES — Greg Gadson’s departure from Baghdad was a sudden one.

Gadson, then a lieutenant colonel with the Second Battalion and 32nd Field Artillery, was returning from a memorial service for two soldiers when his vehicle passed a roadside bomb on May 7, 2007.

Gadson remembers the detonation sending his body tumbling through rubble, then medics placing him on a stretcher in a helicopter, his severed feet sitting in his lap. He awakened days later at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., his legs amputated above the knees.

“When you come to grips with the injuries like that, you don’t think of anything in your future,” he says.

“I never imagined anyone outside the military would be interested in me.”

Turns out a lot of folks were, including the New York Giants and now Hollywood. Gadson makes his acting debut in “Battleship,” playing Lt. Col. Mick Canales, a vet struggling with recovery much as Gadson did.
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