by Michael McNamara | Oct 10, 2025 | A4, Media Appearance, Mental Fitness, Mental Health, Post Traumatic Stress, Post Traumatic Winning, Post-Combat Related Mental Health, PTSD, Trauma
DJ KELLY is one of the best prepared people who has ever interviewed me about my first book, “From Trauma to Joy.” This is not a podcast about combat trauma… It’s a podcast about ANYBODY TRAUMA. DJ retired from the US Army and is currently a...
by Michael McNamara | Oct 3, 2025 | REEL
by Michael McNamara | Feb 21, 2023 | A4, Mental Fitness, Mental Health, Post Traumatic Stress, Post Traumatic Winning, Suicide
At 10:09 PM on June 6th of 2022, I received a long email from a guy named Wade Cates. At 11:15 PM, I woke up, read the email, and told him to call me if he was still awake. We spoke the next day. Wade is a former Marine NCO, he drives a semi-truck for a living…...
by Michael McNamara | Apr 6, 2021 | A4, Current Events, Mental Health, Post Traumatic Stress, Post Traumatic Winning, Suicide
BACKGROUND: 1. Below is the actual number of suicides in the Active-Duty Force from 1999-2020 (the source of all data is the DOD): 2. Below is the suicide RATE in the Active Duty Military from...
by Michael McNamara | Mar 17, 2021 | A1, A4, Entertainment, Mental Health, Post Traumatic Stress, Post Traumatic Winning, Post-Combat Related Mental Health, PTSD, Suicide, Trauma, Vietnam
Ken & Betty Rodgers have become great friends of mine… our paths relative to post-traumatic mental health are parallel. Their first documentary chronicles Ken’s Company in Vietnam — Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines and is entitled...
