New Zealand Army Chaplain Major Darren O'Callaghan can't wait to represent the New Zealand Defence Force at the 2017 Invictus Games in Canada.
Major O'Callaghan, who calls Maketu and Rotorua home, will compete in golf, wheelchair rugby, wheelchair basketball, and indoor rowing.
The Invictus Games is the only international adaptive sporting event for wounded, injured, and ill active duty and veteran service members.
This year's event, in Toronto from September 23-30 , will be the largest yet, with 550 ill and injured servicemen and women from 17 allied nations - including 24 from the New Zealand Defence Force, - competing in 12 adaptive sporting events.
Major O'Callaghan joined the New Zealand Army in 2006 and three years ago was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson's disease.