Combat wounded Afghanistan veteran gets new home and hope in Florida

Disabled Army veteran gets donated house in Parkland
Sun Sentinel
By Lisa J. Huriash
September 28, 2013

A wounded Army veteran who once camped in the mountains of Afghanistan will soon sleep in a $450,000 house in Parkland that will allow him to grab food from the pantry and take a shower without sitting on the floor.

Army Staff Sgt. Brian Mast lost both his legs above the knee and his left index finger to a bomb. But the Michigan man found new hope and a new home thanks to a charity and donations meant for wounded warriors.

Mast's journey to South Florida began when he was a kid on Christmas vacation in Fort Lauderdale. After high school, he enrolled in the Army and was assigned to the 841st Combat Engineer Battalion in Fort Lauderdale.

Years later, Mast was working as a bomb tech clearing the way for soldiers to move into a village near Kandahar, Afghanistan.

"I didn't find anything," Mast, now 33, recalls of his search for explosives in September 2010. "I stood up and I took one or two steps more and found what I had looked for.
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