Part One. We Have a Model -- Part Two. War -- Frick and Frack on an Elephant -- The Uphills -- At the Corner of Angels and Pirates -- The Complete Warrior -- Can You Get Me a Beer? -- Part Three. Finding Home -- The Diamond Standard -- A Challenge, Not a Charity -- One Sky Soldier Falls, We All Fall -- Living the Herbalife -- The Hero's Journey -- My Life Is a Train Wreck -- Part Four. Their Mission Continued -- Legacy -- Transformation -- The Biggest Storms -- Post-Traumatic Growth -- Afterword.
Summary:
Joe Klein tells the dramatic story of Eric Greitens and JakeWood, larger-than-life war heroes who come home and use their military discipline and values to help others. This is a story that hasn't been told before, one of the most hopeful to emerge from Iraq and Afghanistan--a saga of lives saved, not wasted. Greitens, a Navy SEAL and Rhodes Scholar, spends years working in refugee camps before he joins the military. He enlists because he believes the innocent of the world need heavily armed, moral protection. Wounded in Iraq, Greitens returns home and finds thathis fellow veterans at Bethesda Naval Hospital all want the same thing: they want to continue to serve their country in some way, no matter the extent of their injuries. He founds The Mission Continues to provide paid public service fellowships for wounded veterans. One of the first Mission Continues fellows is charismatic former Marine sergeant Jake Wood, a natural leader who began Team Rubicon, organizing 9/11 veterans for dangerous disaster relief projects around the world. 'We do chaos,' he says.
Series:
Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction
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