Less than two months after being shot in the head, a local soldier is making a speedy recovery and wants to get back onto the battlefield.
“In all seriousness I’d like to stay in the infantry and go back to the fight,” U.S. Army 1st Lt. Bobby Woods said this week. “If I have to sit at a desk, I’d rather get out of the Army.”
Woods is recovering at the Tampa, Fla., Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center. He flew to the facility on Sept. 12 after undergoing five weeks of surgeries and testing at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
The 25-year-old was shot in the head Aug. 7 while on foot patrol near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
His mother, Nadine Woods, said his team of doctors was scheduled to meet with the family to give details about Woods’ next phase of recovery. They could keep him in Tampa for rehabilitation or move him to Fort Campbell, Ky., where he would be placed in a more independent living facility with other wounded soldiers as he recovers.