Meet Team Some Assembly Required. They organize and prepare teams of adaptive athletes to compete in athletic events.
What does it mean to be an adaptive athlete?
Team SAR has 25 athletes across the country.
Team SAR is made up of both veterans and civilians who are missing a limb (or limbs) "yet compete at a high level in CrossFit, Olympic lifting, obstacle course racing, power lifting, and various other fitness related events," King says.
BuzzFeed Life reached out to some of Team SAR's athletes. They wrote back and told us more about themselves and why they train and compete.