Quadruple-amputee soldier talks to news station from Walter Reed to thank community

Exclusive: TV5 talks with wounded warrior Travis Mills
Updated: May 17, 2012
By Tom Plahutnik, Web Editor/Producer

SAGINAW, MI (WNEM)
WNEM TV5 had the privilege of speaking with Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills, the young Vassar man wounded in an IED attack while serving in Afghanistan.

TV5 spoke with Mills via phone from his hospital bed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Maryland.

When asked how he was doing, Mills replied that he's "doing good."

"[I'm] keeping my spirits up. I'm feeling good." Mills said.

He is slated to get a prosthetic arm next week and is doing a lot of physical therapy.

"I do a lot of exercise. I work on the muscles that were there, [because] that's how prosthetics are controlled. [I] go every day, and it just gets harder and harder," said the soldier with a laugh.

Mills, 25, was severely wounded by the explosion in April, and he is believed to be the fourth quadruple-amputee to ever survive that kind of blast in U.S. military history. It could be a year or more before Mills leaves Walter Reed.
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