by Wes Dearth | Jun 28, 2017 | Articles, Human Connection, Trust Restoration
To go up on that rooftop is to die. Right? That was a reality. As I was looking around in the middle of this firefight, it looked like a Star Wars movie. There were so many tracers going around the rooftops of these villages from Taliban fire that it...
by Wes Dearth | May 3, 2017 | Articles, Human Connection, Leadership Events, Leaderships Skills, Media, Trust Restoration, Video
I was absolutely terrified. I’m not kidding you, and it’s not something I take a lot of pride in saying as a career Green Beret but, four years ago, just down this river here when I retired at MacDill Air Force Base after almost 23 years in the Army, the...
by Scott Mann | Jun 24, 2016 | Articles, Human Connection
This article originally appeared on Viewers to Volunteers U.S. Army Special Operations combat veteran Sua Tuimaleliifano was severely injured during a firefight in southern Afghanistan in 2007. He kept fighting in the war, unaware of a broken neck and...
by Scott Mann | Apr 30, 2014 | Articles, Leaderships Skills, OP-ED/ARTICLES
Here’s a piece I wrote up for the Tampa Tribune about Afghanistan: It is unclear where things are heading in Afghanistan. Recently, hopes soared as Afghanistan and the United States reached an agreement on the language of the Bi-Lateral Security Agreement, and...
