Ryan McDermott is an Iraq War veteran and West Point graduate who has lived in two high-pressure worlds: infantry leadership and Wall Street. Commissioned as an Infantry Officer in 2000, he earned the Ranger Tab and led a hybrid infantry-armor platoon in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, receiving the Bronze Star medal. He later returned home to the quieter battles of PTSD, marriage and fatherhood - then faced another reckoning during the Lehman Brothers collapse and 2008 financial crisis. McDermott writes about resilience, responsibility, and the hard road back to what matters most.

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