On November 13th, 2023, Adam experienced a catastrophic misfire during a RPG launch while filming an educational video series. There was a mishap, causing it to explode on his shoulder. This had him airlifted to the hospital with third degree burns on about 10% of his upper body, a broken jaw, a fractured skull, face and chest lacerations, several pieces of shrapnel in his body, and long term nerve damage in his face.
Adam Knowles is a recent veteran after spending some time deployed in the U.S. Army. One of his goals after returning home was to educate and entertain his fellow citizens about the interesting world of firearms, as well as the dangers.
Multiple skin grafts, stitches, and other surgeries later, Adam is left with an enormous medical bill of almost $300,000, especially after the helicopter ride, and the weeks spent in the hospital in order to get back on his feet. I am hoping to do everything I can to help him and his family recovery as much as possible, physically, mentally, and financially. So far, insurance has only covered about 2% of the total.
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Reply from Adam Knowles9 months agoArmy Vet, no Navy business 😂 I appreciate you helping me out.
Glad you made it... Damn..!!!
Reply from Adam Knowles9 months agoThank you Bubba, a very giggity donation
Best wishes Adam.
Reply from Adam Knowles9 months agothank you Joseph! My best wishes are still being here so we are doing good on that!
Reply from Adam Knowles9 months agothank you Enzo!
donated $5,000
Reply from Adam Knowles9 months agoDonald, this is INSANE. You have no idea what this does for me and my family. I can't even believe this. Thank you, just thank you I am at a loss of words
I'm an US Marine and I first heard about this incident in December ish time frame. Adam, you are one tough son of a b*tch. I know $50 isn't much but I want to try to help a fellow brother in arms out. Though, I'll probably end up donating more in the future though.
Reply from Adam Knowles9 months agoThank you so much Christian. It is a lot. Everything that has happened is insane right now. Thank you.
I wish that I had the money to donate all that you still need to make your goal, but I don’t. I hope that my small contribution will still help you a bit, even if you use it to just grab yourself a tasty lunch one day or you use it to buy a new box of ammo, because there is no such thing as too much when it comes to ammunition! Keep healing and keep recovering so you guys can continue to make amazingly fun GunTube and ExplosionPron videos for nerds like me and let’s make sure that every future video is absolutely as safe as humanly possible! Your videos are a lot of fun, but they’re not worth your life. God bless you, my dude.
Reply from Adam Knowles9 months agoThank you so much Rondy. Everyone coming together is such a crazy awesome experience for me. You are all awesome. You asked me to go for a tasty lunch, so I am going to do that. I will take the wife somewhere we may have not otherwise gone just for you man. Thank you.
Glad you're doing better! Also Congrats on the Gundies!
Reply from Adam Knowles9 months agoMy man, thank you so much! It was a surreal experience.
Reply from Adam Knowles9 months agothank you Lukas!
Reply from Adam Knowles9 months agoThank you so much!
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As a vet you're probably used to taking loads to the face but that looked pretty bad.