former TST guest,<\/a> talked with Stevoe about\u00a0the work that OneWarrior Won\u00a0has been doing with veterans around the state and around the country.\u00a0 Stevoe and Brewer discussed how ten years ago people didn’t even discuss PTSD and know we recognize there is an elephant in the room, but now we need to address what to do with it.\u00a0 Brewer\u00a0went over\u00a0some statistics with Stevoe regarding the suicide rates of veterans, and the work OneWarrior Won is doing to bring down this number.<\/p>\nBrewer was assigned to the American Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon in the early 80s.\u00a0 He was severely wounded by a suicide truck bomb that destroyed the American Embassy.\u00a0 Despite multiple lacerations, burns, shrapnel wounds and a broken arm, Brewer continued to provide support until he lost consciousness and was taken to a local hospital.<\/p>\n
Brewer is recipient of the Purple Heart, Navy Commendation, Navy Achievement, Combat Action, National Defense, Joint Service, Presidential Unit Citation, and numerous other personal and unit awards.<\/p>\n
After retiring from the Marines, Brewer held many roles, including Massachusetts State Trooper, bodyguard, teacher in Beirut, history teacher at Cheverus High School and patrol officer for the Cumberland Police Department.\u00a0 He has also been a contributor to Fox News Channel and CNN.<\/p>\n
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In honor of Veteran’s Day, TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods welcomed founder and president of OneWarrior Won, and past TST guest, Rich Brewer back to the studio. Brewer told Stevoe about the four primary programs offered by OneWarrior Won, including the raising of money to provide service dogs to veterans with PTSD. Brewer himself has a service dog and knows the invaluable conncection. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}