EPISODE 23: DR. TONY BROOKS

Welcome back to the show! Today we are very excited to be joined alongside Dr. Tony Brooks. After enlisting into the US Army in 2003 at the age of 21, Tony attended and graduated infantry and airborne school followed by the four week Ranger Indoctrination Program (RIP) officially checking into the 2nd Ranger Battalion in Fort Lewis, Washington in September of 2004. He deployed to Eastern Afghanistan in April 2005 based on Bagram Airfield, his first mission was Operation Red Wings II. Tony subsequently deployed to the Ramadi region of Iraq from 2006 to 2007. He is now owner and operator of a chiropractic clinic and creator of Objective Healthy, a healthy lifestyle social venture to improve the health of veterans. He was featured on a Discovery science channel episode of Black Files Declassified in a Smithsonian air and space article as a subject matter expert on Operation Red Wings and is also featured in the Backbone Docuseries.

Check out Tony's book, Leave No Man Behind to find out more about the heroic rescue mission known as Operation Red Wings II. This mission was designed and focused on sending in teams of Army Ranger's to locate and rescue Marcus Luttrell and his fallen men which became a Hollywood movie known as "Lone Survivor."