MCU: Why The Falcon is my hero — Sam Wilson is a US Special Forces Pararescueman, and a PTSD counselor. Here’s a little about what that means.

Fred Chong Rutherford
4 min readApr 10, 2021
Sam Wilson was a hero long before he ever met Steve Rogers and became an Avenger

When we watch these Marvel films, we can intuit something about what kind of training someone has had via a few lines of dialogue. Like, John Walker, the talk about combat duty in Afghanistan, three medals of honor, there’s all of this stuff an…

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