Army Sgt. Javier Torres knows all about fighting. Two years ago, he was in Iraq, fighting the enemy. But a bullet to his left leg began another kind of battle for the 22-year-old New York City native ? a fight for survival.

The shattered leg got him out of Iraq and into a room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C., where he?s been undergoing treatment and rehab for the past several months.