Battling Back

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Frank Gardner joins a military winter exercise where all the participants are disabled

4 Extra Debut. Frank Gardner joins Snow Warrior, a military winter exercise where all the participants taking part are disabled. From 2009.

BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner joins Operation Snow Warrior, a military winter-training exercise with a difference.  

All the servicemen and women taking part are disabled and, like Frank, have turned to winter sports to prove to themselves that their active lives are not over. 

Producer: Peter McManus

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009.

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