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This week in the studio with me. A retired Sergeant Major with a combined 29 years of professional service to both the United States Marine Corp and The United States Army. Serving in numerous position ranging from a Scout Sniper to National Security Agency Access operations Officer. He has also conducted operations with SOUTHCOM, CENTCOM, AFRICOM, EUCOM, SOCOM, AND THE FAMED SPECIAL MISSIONS UNIT. His life took a turn after he lost two teammates in a one month time period to suicide. My guest decided that after not being able to make sense of these losses, that it was time to be an example and get help. Fast Forward to life after 2 Stellate Ganglion Blocks and being a team member with the Military Special Operations Family Collabrative, a group that enables the success of SOF Warriors and Families through collabrative health and well being research and programs. He’s here to tell his story of successes and failures, It is my honor to introduce Erick Miyares.
INTRO and OUTRO music written,performed, and provided by the band Rattle Root. Check them out below.
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“My family immigrated from Cuba in June 1971. My mom was pregnant with me at the time and luckily she caught the last flight that allowed Cubans to leave under the Castro administration. I say luckily because I would have been raised under very different circumstances from my childhood in Hialeah, FL. I grew up in a good home, but as the child of immigrants I learned very quickly about hard work and humble beginnings. My mom dated a man who took on a stepfather role in my life. He was part of the Bay of Pigs invasion so I grew up understanding the sacrifices involved with serving this country. This is inevitably what drove me to join the Marine Corps and serve this country. I landed on Parris Island on September 12, 1991 and went on to graduate as a Marine infantryman. I went on to become a Marine Scout Sniper and served as part of Joint Task Force Six (JTF-6) counter drug operations on a two-man Scout Sniper element. I stayed in the Marine Corps from 1991 to 1997 before joining the Army. My first wife was going to the Defense Language Institute with the Army which is why I decided to make the switch and go through the program as well. They sent me to brush up on my Spanish before being assigned to 7th Special Forces Group (A). We did a lot of foreign internal defense (FID) missions and support to counter-narcotics operations. I got my first Purple Heart in Ecuador when I was shot on a mission to train Ecuadorian troops in counter narcotics. We were on a convoy and as we went around a bend, there was an insurgent group waiting on the other side of a bridge. We were ambu… Read More
