Anthony Dyer | Retired Combat Veteran, 14 Deployments. On rock bottom, writing through it, and scars as a roadmap.

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He joined the Air Force for a paycheck. No direction, a chip on his shoulder, and no real plan beyond getting out of a small mountain town in western North Carolina. What happened over the next 20 years — 14 deployments, a gunship over Afghanistan, a torn pec mid-hoist in East Africa, a waffle man who turned out to be the enemy, and eventually a bottle that almost cost him everything — is the kind of story that doesn't get told enough. Anthony Dyer told it anyway. And he wrote it down.

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In this episode you'll learn:

• How to find purpose again after the mission that defined you is gone
• How to feed the positive wolf when you've spent years doing the opposite
• Why "we'll see" might be the most powerful two words you carry into uncertainty
• How writing down your trauma becomes the beginning of healing
• How to keep your identity intact through every reinvention, not just the ones that worked

There's a line Anthony said that I keep thinking about: scars are a roadmap to perseverance. This episode is that map. What We Discuss: 0:00 Intro | 3:00 Growing up in the Appalachians | 4:45 The two wolves | 7:18 Why he joined the Air Force | 11:05 9/11 and the shift that changed everything | 14:26 What being a gunship operator actually means | 20:09 Afghanistan — RPGs and the Casablanca mission | 22:17 The Waffle Man | 31:20 Hospitalized in Germany and telling no one | 41:46 Rock bottom — the bottle, the pills, and the choice his wife forced | 43:34 Prolonged exposure therapy | 48:00 Writing the book | 54:16 Navajo culture and raising Sullivan with two belief systems | 1:04:45 What he hopes Sullivan finds in this conversation 35 years from now

Get Anthony's book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Q8XYAJ

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