82nd Airborne, SEER Training, and Two Thrillers: Jared Maxwell on War, Law Enforcement, and Writing- EPISODE 166
About this episode
Rob Fredette interviews Jared Maxwell about his military and law enforcement experiences and their influence on his writing.
Hello, everybody. This is Rob Fredette with the podcast HodgePodge, and welcome back for another episode. My guest today is Jared Maxwell, author of "The Last Gunfighter" and "Wolfhound Dawn", a veteran who served nine years in the Army (35 months in combat) and 11 years in law enforcement. We discuss his experiences from enlisting after 9/11, intense deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan — including the Korengal Valley — airborne training with the 82nd Airborne, SEER survival doctrine, and how those experiences shaped his fast-paced novels focused on PTSD, survival, and moral conflict.
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