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Peaches sits down with retired Sergeant Major Taamir Ransome, an Army EOD veteran and author of Mind of a Soldier, to talk about EOD, transition, veteran suicide, purpose after service, and what happens when the war is over but the fight is not.
Taamir walks through growing up in New Jersey, joining the Army with a GED, starting out in radar repair, attempting SFAS, and eventually finding his way into Explosive Ordnance Disposal. He explains the differences between Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force EOD, what makes the career field so small, and why EOD school is one of the hardest technical schools in the military.
The conversation also gets into deployments, working around Special Operations Forces, wild stories from Iraq, and the reality that the military creates people who are calibrated differently than the rest of society.
Then the episode turns toward Taamir’s book, Mind of a Soldier: 34 Laws for the War After the War. He talks about veteran suicide, transition, moral injury, finding purpose, nonprofits, service dogs, mentorship, and why veterans need to find a new pack and a new mission after leaving the uniform behind.
This one is about more than war stories. It is about what comes next.
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Chapters:
- Intro, Tasty Gains, Ones Ready, and Operator Training Summit
- Meet Retired SGM Taamir Ransome
- Growing Up in New Jersey
- Family Military History and Crazy Uncle Jerry
- Joining the Army With a GED
- The Cheat Code for Getting Mom On Board
- GEDs, Recruiting, and the Military
- From Radar Repair to EOD
- SFAS, the 82nd, and Finding EOD
- Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force EOD Differences
- Why Navy EOD Supports SOF
- Taamir’s EOD Career
- How Small the EOD Community Is
- EOD School and Joint Service Training
- Deployment Stories and EOD Reality
- Iraq, Targeting, and Wild Stories
- Mind of a Soldier
- Why Veterans Are Killing Themselves
- Being Calibrated Differently After War
- Suicide, Policy, and Personal Responsibility
- Purpose, Pack, and Fighting the Noise
- Finding a New Mission
- Moral Injury and Mentoring the Next Generation
- STEM, AI, and Teaching Kids
- Training Service Dogs for Veterans
- Conventional Veterans and SOF Access
- Veteran Nonprofits and Finding Help
- VFW, DAV, and the Next Generation
- Podcasts, Trust, and Reaching Veterans
- Quiet Professional vs. Silent Professional
- The Price of Service
- Where to Find Taamir
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