Amputee Iraq Veteran Golfing Again

Iraq War vet off the sideline, on the links after leg amputation 
KSL Golf
By Rod Zundel
May 1, 2015

HERRIMAN — Bryant Jacobs of Herriman is an Iraq War veteran who was hit by a roadside bomb in 2004. He eventually lost his leg, but that hasn’t stopped him from enjoying the game of golf he loves.

Jacobs almost enlisted right out of high school, but went to college briefly and “absolutely hated it,” he said.

After the events of Sept. 11, he and a friend quickly joined the Army. “I think that patriotism came out of everybody,”
Jacobs said.

“Whether it was joining the military or gaining a new respect for our country, we really focused on what our country was about and what we do.”

Jacobs was stationed in Hawaii, but the day he got to his unit, they left for Iraq.

He was a combat engineer, or in other words, a fancy way of playing with C-4 every day, he said. 

“Our main objective was taking care of IEDs and caches that we would find,” Jacobs said. “We would dispose of it and blow it up. We got to blow stuff up every day. It was a great job.”

Nearly 11 months into his tour, Jacobs’ unit was clearing the roads before a mission when he got hit by a roadside bomb in December 2004.

They were traveling 50 miles per hour, and then chaos ensued.
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