The first time United States Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills’ wife saw him at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, he says, she was given a paper to sign. It was to amputate Mills’ leg even more so (two more inches) than it already had been, after an IED explosion had taken most of his other limbs too.

“I said look Kels, you don’t have to do this, you might as well take all the money we have in the account, the house, the cars, whatever, it’s all yours — and go.”

“And she said, ‘That’s not how this works. I mean, I’m in it for the handicap parking.'”

“I was like, ‘Oh, okay.'”

And with this charming, self-deprecating quip, Mills had an entire audience of The Ellen Degeneres Show on a string.

He was invited on the popular daytime program to discuss the partnership between he and former National Football League player Jason Vobora recently established, and how it’s changing the face of fitness for those with life-altering injuries.

See the appearance here: