I didn’t know what I was getting into my first day reporting at Fort Campbell to 3rd Brigade Combat Team. It was my first unit, and I was happy to be out of training and doing real things. When the replacement NCO got to me, he said, “oh shit, you’re going to be a Rakkasan.” […]
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A lot of us veterans make bad decisions, epically bad decisions. If we always made brilliant decisions, we might not have ended up in the military. We drink too much, buy cars we can’t afford, marry strippers, and destroy our credit. One of my best friends blew all his money from a 15-month deployment in
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It’s strangely peaceful doing eighty down the highway with my handlebar inches from the veteran rider next to me. The wind feels good on my face, and I feel the sun on my forearms, I check my rearview and see twenty other bikes behind me in the formation. Behind them is some police cars, behind
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I get asked a lot if tattoos hurt, I’m used to the question. I always smile a bit and say yes, obviously tattoos hurt. I didn’t know why I was smiling until I realized I enjoy the pain and the tattoo process. Actually, I love the pain of the tattoo needle. It’s therapy for me,
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I wasted too many hours wrestling with my PTSD in windowless VA offices under glaring fluorescent lights. The obligatory motivational quotes on the wall were more annoying than inspiring. I was handed pills for this or that out of the VA PTSD pill vending machine. The system appeared designed to trap me in a pharmaceutical
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