Trevor Greene

Captain Charles Trevor Greene (born 1965) is a writer, journalist, and a former officer in the Seaforth Highlanders of the Canadian Forces. Greene sustained a massive brain injury after a much publicized attack on March 4, 2006, in the Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.

Greene is notable for being one of the first recipients of the Sacrifice Medal and being the subject of a feature-length documentary that won a Gemini Award, Peace Warrior, which documents his recovery. Greene was also a torch-bearer for the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics.

Biography

Greene was born in 1965 to Richard and Elizabeth Greene in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He attended King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he completed a bachelor's degree of journalism with honours in 1988. Greene moved to Japan soon after, to work for Bloomberg News and the Yomiuri Shimbun.

Greene joined the Canadian Navy in 1995, where he sailed on , the Navy's tall sail-training ship and the oldest commissioned ship of the Canadian Forces. He then settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, and transferred to the Canadian Army's reserve, as an officer in a reserve infantry unit, the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada. He also joined Bloomberg News Vancouver bureau and began researching and writing about the Downtown Eastside, an area encompassing five neighborhoods, an area noted for a high incidence of poverty, drug use and sex trade.

Greene is the honorary patron of the Honour House Society, an organization dedicated to help the families of wounded Canadian soldiers in the New-Westminster-Vancouver area. Honour House is located in New Westminster. He was also awarded with an Honorary Doctor of Civil Laws in May 2009. ), a sixteen-year-old boy, almost split Greene's brain in half by hitting him with a locally made axe. Kareem tried to hit again but was shot and killed by other members of the platoon. The platoon then came under heavy fire while waiting for a US Army medical evacuation helicopter.

He was later evacuated to the Ramstein Air Base in Germany from which he was transferred to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the largest US Army medical facility outside the continental United States.

Shortly after being stabilized, Greene was transferred from Landstuhl to the Vancouver General Hospital, where doctors initially thought he would never come out of his coma. Greene was then released from the hospital and was transferred to a private-care rehabilitation center in Langley, BC.

At that stage, he had made slow but significant progress, and was able to open and close his hands, among other things.

Publications

Trevor Greene : Bad Date: The Lost Girls of Vancouver's Low Track, ECW Press (October 1, 2001) Shane Gibson, Trevor Greene : Closing Bigger - the Field Guide to Closing Bigger Deals, Knowledge Brokers International (October 15, 2005) Debbie Greene, Trevor Greene : March Forth: The Inspiring True Story Of A Canadian Soldier's Journey Of Love, Hope and Survival, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (Mar 13 2012)