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Major Mark Campbell was lying in a hospital bed, just starting to comprehend losing both his legs above the knees in a Taliban ambush, when he found out the federal government had stripped his lifetime military pension.

“I expected to just move off into the twilight and retire, but unfortunately it’s just like the cliche out of a Hollywood movie,” said the Edmonton man, describing the conclusion to 33-years of service after a final tour in Afghanistan.

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“I come home and I find that, honestly, the biggest battle I’ve ever faced in my entire life is here at home against my very own government.”

Campbell, 49, is one of seven plaintiffs attempting to sue the federal government for drastic alterations to the Canadian Forces compensation regime, which applies to the newer generation of armed forces members injured in the line of service after 2006.

I come home and I find that, honestly, the biggest battle I’ve ever faced in my entire life is here at home against my very own government

Federal government lawyers were in British Columbia’s highest court on Wednesday, launching their appeal of a lower court’s approval of a class-action lawsuit in September 2013 by the soldiers disabled in Afghanistan.