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With that mindset came injuries, but according to Dave Cain, a SEAL who was there when Adam's fingers were severed in Afghanistan, "He could endure pain better than anybody I've ever known...if he felt it at all."†
p. 9.2
As Adam helped extract Billy and the other injured men from the mangled vehicle, Dave noticed Adam's right hand: its fingers were dangling by skin and tendons, every digit but the thumb severed.†
p. 192.1
Because of Adam's eye and severed fingers, "I figured his career as a SEAL was finished," Brad says.†
p. 201.1 *

Definitions:

(1) (sever)
to end or cut off completely -- either physically or in relationships
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)