audio, stills, text and or video: Go to http://www.zReportage.com to see more - 19-year-old Pfc. Kevin Trimble was the youngest of five triple amputee soldiers living at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. His mother, Saralee Trimble, sleeping in the bed next to his, helps him through his morning routine as she did when he was a child, her youngest of four. Surgeries at Brooke Army Medical Center fill Kevin's days since he was injured in an explosion while serving with the Army during a battle in a river valley west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Several soldiers were killed and injured in the battle. Between 2002 and 2009, six coalition troops flown out of Iraq and Afghanistan had lost three limbs. That number rose to 25 over the next two years, the Army Medical Command reported. In all, 1,500 wounded troops, their family and children live at Fort Sam Houston.
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March 7, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE, 19, heads back to Powless Guest Show after formation at Fort Sam Houston.
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March 7, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE asks his mother, SARALEE TRIMBLE, to put a shrinker on his leg quickly as he is in more pain from his recent surgery as she helps him get ready for the day in the small room they share at Powless Guest House at Fort Sam Houston.
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March 7, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - SARALEE TRIMBLE helps her son, Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE, 19, get out of their van upon their arrival at Dury's Gun Shop. Trimble was looking to buy his own hunting rifle, since he's been borrowing one, for hunting trips with wounded warriors.
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April 5, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE, 19, wipes his face after his brother, ANTHONY TRIMBLE, 21, who is in the Marine Corp Reserve and was visiting from New Orleans, sprayed his face with a spray bottle as Anthony helps adjust Kevin's short limb prosthetics, used to prepare him for full prosthetics, during physical therapy at the Center for the Intrepid.
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March 7, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE, 19, adjusts his myoelectric upper limb prosthetic for occupational therapy at the Center for the Intrepid at Brooke Army Medical Center.
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Southampton Hand Assessment Procedure, during occupational therapy at the Center for the Intrepid at Brooke Army Medical Center.
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April 5, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE, 19, strengthens his leg for his eventual prostheses during physical therapy at the Center for the Intrepid.
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April 5, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE, 19, pretends to cry as he walks during a physical therapy session with the assistance of physical therapy technician TROY HOPKINS, right, while Kevin's brother ANTHONY TRIMBLE, 21, left, who is in the Marine Corp Reserve and was visiting from New Orleans, watches during a physical therapy session at the Center for the Intrepid.
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April 5, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE, 19, assisted by physical therapy technician TROY HOPKINS, left, walks during a physical therapy with his brother ANTHONY TRIMBLE, 21, who is in the Marine Corp Reserve and was visiting from New Orleans, at the Center for the Intrepid.
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April 5, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE, 19, puts on his short limb prosthetics, used to prepare him for full prosthetics, while his brother ANTHONY TRIMBLE, 21, who is in the Marine Corp Reserve and was visiting from New Orleans, watches as Kevin begins a physical therapy session at the Center for the Intrepid.
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March 7, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE, 19, yawns moments after waking up as his mother, SARALEE TRIMBLE, helps him start his day at dawn at Powless Guest House at Fort Sam Houston.
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March 7, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - SARALEE TRIMBLE and her son, Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE, 19, meet for lunch in their two room hotel room at the Powless Guest House at Fort Sam Houston.
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March 7, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE, 19, entertains himself with a remote controlled helicopter in the room he shares with his mother, SARALEE TRIMBLE, at Powless Guest House at Fort Sam Houston.
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March 7, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - LISA SMURR WALTERS, Supervisor of Occupational Therapy at the Center for the Intrepid, looks at the healing of the arm Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE, 19, before their session at Brooke Army Medical Center.
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March 7, 2012 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - SARALEE TRIMBLE watches as her son, Army Pfc. KEVIN TRIMBLE, 19, shops for a hunting rifle at Dury's Gun Shop. Trimble was looking to buy his own rifle, since he's been borrowing one, for hunting trips with wounded warriors. At 19, Kevin has lost both legs above the knee and an arm after he was wounded by a bomb in Afghanistan.
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