Welcome back to another episode of Peace After Combat with your hosts, Dr Tiffany Tajiri and Dr Kristina Seymour.  Today the docs are joined by bronze star awarded Lt Col Brian L Slade to discuss his new book, "Cleared Hot". This is a book that puts readers in the cockpit of the most lethal helicopter in the world. 

"You or someone you are close to, whether you are in the military or not, will experience a significant traumatic event. We have taken an incredible war story and highlighted valuable lessons. Learn to be resilient in the face of your trials and see positive opportunities where most would not".

The story is captivating, but we hope the lessons will empower you to clearly see possibilities and overcome problems.

It's a holistic guide designed to show you exactly how to build a highly resilient mind.

• Grow a Healthy Perspective
• Practice Chair Flying
• Value a Higher Cause
• Build Healthy Support Systems
• Avoid Festering Emotional Wounds
• Release Hate
• Define and Embrace Honorable Missions

Brian L. Slade has held command positions in the Army and the Air Force and received the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, and fourteen combat air medals. He attended Utah State, where he earned a BA and was commissioned as an Army Aviation second lieutenant. He’s also earned an MA in aviation instruction. Brian currently serves as a lieutenant colonel for Air Force Combat Search and Rescue.
Author of None Braver and The Liberators, journalist Michael Hirsh earned his Combat Infantryman Badge as an army combat correspondent with the 25th Inf. Div. in Vietnam. He’s produced numerous documentaries and is the recipient of the Peabody and Writers Guild Awards and the Vietnam Veterans of America Excellence in the Arts Award.

“A TRULY GREAT BOOK! Cleared Hot is intense, compelling, instructive, humorous, and brutally forthright. It is also truly inspirational. It takes the reader on an extraordinary journey—through the formative years of a fiercely independent and competitive individual and then into the cockpit of an Apache attack helicopter engaging in ferocious combat with a tenacious enemy in the most challenging environment and context imaginable. It explores the challenges of dealing with family issues on the home front during a time of war, as well. Brian Slade also guides the reader on a very instructive examination of the use of traumatic experiences to foster the dev

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