All Secure: A Special Operations Soldiers Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront

One of the most highly regarded special operations soldiers in American military history shares his war stories and personal battle with PTSD.As a senior noncommissioned officer of the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this countrys most fearsome enemies. Over the course of twenty years and thousands of missions, hes fought desperately for his life, rescued hostages, killed and captured terrorist leaders, and seen his friends maimed and killed around him.All Secure is in part Toms journey into a world so dark and dangerous that most Americans cant contemplate its existence. It recounts what it is like to be on the front lines with one of Americas most highly trained warriors. As actionpacked as any fiction thriller, All Secure is an insiders view of The Unit.Tom is a legend even among other Tier One special operators. Yet the enemy that cost him three marriages, and ruined his health physically and psychologically, existed in his brain. It nearly led him to kill himself in 2014; but for the lifeline thrown to him by an extraordinary woman it might have ended there. Instead, they took on Satterlys most important missionsaving the lives of his brothers and sisters in arms who are killing themselves at a rate of more than twenty a day.Told through Satterlys firsthand experiences, it also weaves in the reasonsthe bloodshed, the deaths, the intense moments of sheer terror, the survivors guilt, depression, and substance abusefor his careerlong battle against the most insidious enemy of all: Post Traumatic Stress. With the help of his wife, he learned that by admitting his weaknesses and faults he sets an example for other combat veterans struggling to come home.