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It was a battle of mind over body for the 48-year-old father-of-two who clocked 650 chin-ups in an hour.
They met in the Army, and went from buddies to each other's best man.
Their mission was a complicated and sensitive one: to get to the evacuees in Afghanistan as quickly as possible, and take them from Qatar to Germany where they would be safe.
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