Today The Health Journal featured former Mrs. Virginia, Amber Wandtke, a Navy Petty Officer who uses her position as a pageant winner to raise awareness of PTSD and to fight for better treatment. Amber was first introduced to the horrors of PTSD when her husband, also active duty, returned from Iraq with symptoms of the war-related […]
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You may have heard in the news about a couple of Navy SEALs who died as a result of using tainted heroin. Please don’t think less of our heroes for being human. SOFREP.com recently posted an article about a drug problem in the Special Forces community, especially with warriors who have served back-to-back combat tours
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For everyone who loved my SEAL Team 12 series, I have one final gift for you, a novella featuring Vinny and Ophelia, secondary characters from NEXT TO DIE. You remember them as the squared away twenty-year-old Navy SEAL and the wild and willful twenty-six-year-old Hooters waitress. Their passionate and entertaining story started when Ophelia plowed
Vinny and Ophelia, Characters Who Won’t Let Go Read Post »
What could be better than a box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day? Why, a boxed set of all-Navy-SEAL stories, including my newest release, CODE OF SILENCE, a novella featuring my beloved secondary couple from NEXT TO DIE, Vinny and Ophelia. SEALED WITH A KISS is an E-book anthology written by a pool of USA Today,
Better than a box of Chocolates? Read Post »
When Marcus Luttrell signed a copy of LONE SURVIVOR for me, he wrote something very profound which I would like to reiterate: “The only job harder than being a Navy SEAL is being the wife one. You are the hero.” (He assumed as many do that my Navy retired husband was a SEAL). But he
Wives and Widows of US Navy SEALs, the bravest of all Read Post »
My readers know by now that I have to see any movie featuring “my boys,” as I call them. I finally got to rent CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, the movie based on the real life rescue of a cargo ship captain who found himself abducted by Somalian Pirates. Talk about a gripping film! Tom Hanks gave a
Navy SEALs kick ass in “Captain Phillips” Read Post »
After seeing the movie, LONE SURVIVOR, I was reminded of just how much former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell’s experience inspired my own writing. Before he even published LONE SURVIVOR back in 2007, I had read snippets in the newspapers about a sole surviving Navy SEAL of an operation-gone-wrong, and that news alone was enough to
LONE SURVIVOR, the book, inspired my fiction Read Post »