His case drew national headlines, and Pogany says that at one point, he nearly gave up.
At that point, Pogany says, he wanted to forget Fort Carson and move on.
Today, both he and his mother will tell you there's one main reason he's still alive: Andrew Pogany.
"The soldier's creed says 'I will never leave a fallen comrade, '" Pogany says.
But instead of giving him intensive medical treatment, officers there charged Pogany with cowardice, a military crime punishable by death.
But the fact that they and other officers at Fort Carson have met with Pogany shows that he has forced them to take him seriously.
Since then, soldiers at Fort Carson who have come back from the war with serious mental health problems have barraged Pogany with pleas for help.
Robert Mixon, acknowledges the contributions of Pogany and the veterans group.
Pogany has been meeting with Talley's officers, arguing that the way they've been treating him violates the military's own rules and risks making his PTSD worse.
Kit Bond (R-Mo.) says Pogany and his colleagues at the advocacy group Veterans for America are making a difference for soldiers who are victims of "egregious" mistreatment.
After medical specialists testified that the Army's own medications had likely caused Pogany's mental breakdown, officials dropped all charges against him and medically retired him with an honorable discharge.
But as he was walking one afternoon through the base hospital to a doctor's appointment, a soldier stopped him and said he knew that Pogany had battled the Army and won.
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