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<p>Air Force Staff Sgt. Marc Esposito, 26, smiles after he finished first in a preliminary heat in the 50-meter freestyle at the Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Wednesday. Esposito, a Special Operations combat controller, suffered a broken back, a moderate traumatic brain injury and severe injuries to his lower legs from an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan in May 2009.</p>

<p>Air Force Staff Sgt. Marc Esposito, 26, smiles after he finished first in a preliminary heat in the 50-meter freestyle at the Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Wednesday. Esposito, a Special Operations combat controller, suffered a broken back, a moderate traumatic brain injury and severe injuries to his lower legs from an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan in May 2009.</p>

May 14, 2010

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Still battling
May 14, 2010 9 p.m.

Still battling

Warrior Games give injured veterans kinship, strength

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - An Afghan insurgent's homemade bomb shattered Marc Esposito's lower legs, broke his back and knocked him cold for four days. But the Air Force staff sergeant says the worst part was being torn from his Special Operations teammates who stayed in the field after he was evacuated.