Sergeant Barco's story can be viewed on PBS's Frontline's "The Wounded Platoon" at  this website:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/woundedplatoon/view/.

Veteran Sergeant Jose Barco served two tours of active duty in Iraq, was critically injured in his first tour.  He has an honorable discharge and is a war hero and decorated as such throughout his military career.