EP #224 YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES DON'T DEFINE YOU - KIONTE STOREY - MARINE VETERAN-HERO-SPEAKER
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Kionte Storey was born and raised in Stockton, CA where he graduated from Edison High School in June of 2007. On July 2007 he was shipped to Marine Corps Recruit Depot of San Diego where he would soon later graduate and become a United States Marine.
After PFC Storey graduated from boot camp, he would attend Infantry Training Battalion of the School of Infantry based at Camp Pendleton, CA. Upon graduation from School of Infantry in December of 2007 PFC. Storey was assigned to his first duty station in Twenty-Nine Palms, CA with 3rd Battalion 7th Marines. LCpl Storey was deployed to Haditha, Iraq to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom from August of 2008 through February of 2009.
LCpl Storey was soon deployed to Afghanistan in March 2010 for Operation Enduring Freedom where he sustained his injuries. Storey was a team leader on patrol early one morning in September with his squad. When clearing out a building, he was hit by an IED, sustaining the loss of his lower right limb below the knee and compartment syndrome to his left leg. LCpl Storey was carried out and moved while still leading his junior marine. He was then transported to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan to be treated for his injuries then transported to Bethesda Medical Center in Virginia where he was awarded his Purple Heart and Navy Achievement Medal with Valor Device. Cpl. Storey received treatment from Naval Medical Center of San Diego where he would get his first prosthetic made. After his first year of recovery Cpl. Storey competed in the Warrior Games where he would walk away with two gold medals in the 100 and 200m sprint. From this point, Kionte would find anything he could to challenge himself as an amputee and to prove to himself that nothing is impossible. On January 2013 Kionte summit one of the seven summits, Mt. Vinson Massif located in Antartica with the aid of "The Heroes Project." Currently, Kionte trained in the 100m and 200m sprint for the Paralympics from 2013 - 2018. In 2022 Kionte competed at the Invictus Games 22 in Hague, Netherlands, where he left with one gold medal in the 100m and gold in the 4x100m sprint. Since 2019 Kionte has attended college with hopes of becoming a Physical Therapist or Athletic trainer one day with the desire to work with amputees or individuals with disabilities.
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