Redeployed: How Combat Veterans Can Fight the Battle Within and Win the War at Home
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Redeployed - Brian Fleming
breath.
"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.
You will meet them doing various things with resolve, but their interest rarely holds because after the other thing, ordinary life is as flat as the taste of wine when the taste buds have been burned off your tongue."
— Ernest Hemingway On the Blue Water
(Hemingway, 1936)
Many of us have read this quote in the past. It is often spread across the back of military t-shirts and recited as a motivational tag line in training programs. To many of us, it was always just a cool saying—motivating. We thought we understood it, but had no clue. Hemingway knew something about the warrior who has been down range, who has wandered into the distant, foreign land in search of an enemy he does not know, but knows he must either destroy or be destroyed. He has clearly had an inside look at a warrior’s struggle returning home and trying to reintegrate into a world where he felt he did not belong. You will meet them doing various things with resolve, but their interest rarely holds because after the other thing, ordinary life is as flat as the taste of wine when the taste buds have been burned off your tongue.
We couldn’t begin to tell you how many combat veterans we’ve worked with who have been through a dozen jobs after being home only a year or two . Then there’s the ninety percent divorce rate within five years of returning home from combat, and the fact that 75 percent of combat veterans will struggle with a drug or alcohol addiction within the first twenty-four months of returning home from