Veteran Voices: SITREP

What happens when the traits that make you successful in the military become the very things that make civilian life harder? Dr. Tony Dice returns to Veteran Voices to go deeper into his story and his new book, exploring addiction, recovery, emotional compulsivity, fatherhood, and the difficult transition from the Navy SEAL teams to civilian life. Tony shares stories from the book—including the un...

What happens when a veteran refuses to accept that his best days are behind him? In this episode of Veteran Voices: SITREP, Army veteran Jonathan Milkovich shares his journey from physical injuries, grief, unhealthy drinking, and the loss of military community to renewed purpose through fitness. Jonathan opens up about losing a fellow soldier, burying his own emotions while caring for everyone els...

In this episode of Veteran Voices: SITREP, Tom and Chris sit down with Army veteran, therapist, and founder of Third Space Therapy, Roger St. Julian, for a powerful conversation about service, identity, trauma, transition, and healing. Roger shares his journey from ROTC and the 82nd Airborne to deployment in Iraq, where his mission shifted from combat expectations to training, mentoring, and rebui...

In this episode of Veteran Voices: SITREP, Tom and Chris Faust sit down with Anna Redmond, founder of BRAV and AllCoin, to talk about the powerful meaning behind challenge coins and the stories they carry. Challenge coins have long been part of military, veteran, first responder, and security communities. But as Anna explains, the coin itself is only part of the story. The real value is in the mem...

Veteran Voices: SITREP -Episode 48 In this powerful episode of Veteran Voices, we sit down with Alex Johnson, a combat veteran who shares his unfiltered journey from war, identity loss, and alcohol dependency to healing, accountability, and conscious leadership. Alex opens up about the moment his marriage nearly ended, how alcohol became a coping mechanism after leaving the military, and what fina...

In this episode of Veteran Voices: SITREP, Tom and Chris sit down with financial professional Nick Jarvis — a man quietly becoming the go-to guide for veterans facing medical retirement, disability decisions, severance, and the terrifying question… “What now?” Nick breaks down the real challenges veterans face when stepping out of the military and into civilian life — the uncertainty, the fear, th...

In this episode of Veteran Voices: SITREP , Navy veteran and former federal law enforcement officer Frank McGaha joins us to share a raw, unfiltered look at transition, failure, purpose, and the realities of life after the uniform. Frank takes us through his journey from BUD/S and SEAL training , to aviation, to multiple deployments, to a career-ending set of injuries — and the moment he realized...

In this episode of Veteran Voices: SITREP , co-hosts Tom and Chris Faust sit down with Army veteran and poet Chris Clark (SFC Retired) to explore how creative expression can help veterans process trauma and rediscover purpose after service. After retiring from over two decades in the Army, Chris found that transitioning to civilian life wasn’t as simple as expected. Through poetry, he discovered a...

Episode 44 – Dr. Tony Dice: After the Trident Former Navy SEAL, firefighter, paramedic, and now clinical therapist, Dr. Tony Dice has lived through both the highs of service and the depths of addiction. In this raw and unfiltered conversation, Dr. Dice opens up about the darker side of military culture, how alcohol and drugs became “emotional currency,” and the spiral that led him to rock bottom....

🎙️ Episode 43: Dr. Brian Livesay — Moral Injury, PTSD, and the Healing Journey In this powerful episode of Veteran Voices: SITREP, Dr. Brian Livesay—Army veteran, psychologist, and innovator of Critical Memory Integration (CMI)—joins Tom and Chris Faust to dive deep into the unseen wounds veterans carry after service. From redefining PTSD as a survival response to exposing the silent epidemic of m...

What happens when your military service ends, but the battle within continues? In this powerful episode of Veteran Voices: SITREP , Navy veteran Robert Wheeler shares his unfiltered story of identity loss, trauma, depression—and how he found hope again. From military police service to struggling through the dark aftermath of his transition, Robert opens up about holding a gun in his hand, nearly g...

In this episode of Veteran Voices: SITREP, hosts Tom and Chris Faust sit down with veteran and lifelong "word nerd" Gail Marie Beckman—a trailblazing cruciverbalist who's been crafting custom crossword and word search puzzles since 1991.Gail shares her inspiring journey from enlisting in the Army to escaping the family construction business to building a one-of-a-kind puzzle busines...

Episode 40 - Interview with Vanity Dawton - Victim Advocate In this powerful episode of Veteran Voices: SITREP , hosts Tom and Chris Faust sit down with Vanity Dawson , an Air National Guard veteran, trauma therapist, and former SHARP and victim advocate. Vanity opens up about her personal journey from service member to licensed clinical professional counselor—revealing how her military experience...