Freedom Alliance honors wounded San Antonio veteran with a customized all-terrain wheelchair

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The national military nonprofit Freedom Alliance held a ceremony at the Alamo on Thursday to honor Dana Cisneros, a San Antonio veteran. She was presented with a special all-terrain wheelchair.
Cisneros, who served 17 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, began her military career as an intelligence analyst in 2006. She deployed five times, which included three combat tours in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan from 2008-2009. She later supported national security efforts with the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF).
Cisneros’ ast deployment was in 2017 and, following that deployment, she was assigned to the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) at Indian Head, Maryland, for three years. During her time there, Cisneros sustained a non-combat related foot injury that required a below-the-knee amputation.