How an Iraq Veteran Turned Service Into Entrepreneurship
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How did 9/11 and basic training shape Roger Ward's military experience?
I was in the army for five years from 2001 to 2006. Okay. And 9-11 happened while I was in basic. When we were told about it as troops, we didn't know if they were joking or not. They load up all of us troops and take us back to the barracks. When the trucks actually showed up, that's when we knew something had happened. That was kind of a heads up to like, hey, something serious may be afoot. Life forever changed on that day.
Roger Lee Ward III is a veteran, entrepreneur, and business mentor, the founder of Great Day Moving and the visionary behind Great Day Services. After serving in Kuwait and Iraq, he built a business focused on restoring trust to the moving industry and empowering entrepreneurs through proven systems.
You transition into the Army and they give you a four to six to eight month basic training plus AIT, right? Advanced Individual Training. But in order to go back into civilian life, where's the training there? Especially as an infantry guy, there's a lot of direct responses that you're taught that you should unlearn before you go and try to reintegrate to society. Because those responses, they can get you in a lot of trouble. AI is about to take over all these white collar jobs. Of course. So the question is, how quickly are you willing to adapt to it?
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Hi, and welcome back to another episode of Living Your Legacy Podcast. I'll be your host today, Jay Slangen, and I'm sitting down here with a guy that served in, I heard you did some combat time, right? Yes, sir. Yeah, tell me a little bit about that.
Well, I was in the Army for five years from 2001 to 2006. Okay. And 9-11 happened while I was in basic.
Wow.
And from there, I was deployed to Kuwait. And then a subsequent time in 2003, we did the invasion into Iraq. And then another 12 months after that, as a, you know, peacekeeping tour.
Okay. Wow. So we just had Memorial Day. And yeah, everyone, you know, just remember where they were at 9-11. So you're in basic training. Yes, sir. Tell us a little bit about that. Like, what was the feeling when that happened in basic training and your superiors? I mean, it must have been a whole lot different than a lot of other people experience.
Yeah.
I would agree. We were actually on a range and it was odd to say the least, mostly because when we got the, when we were told about it as troops, we didn't know if they were joking or not. because they play like PSYOP games with you to try to mess with your mind and get you to react in order to give you different situations. And so we didn't know if they were joking or not. We kind of thought, I know that you could be like, man, that would be a sadistic joke. They do sadistic jokes all the time in order to get your mind in a different state of combat.
Of course, it's like I did a wilderness first training and they just put you through some mental things of like, hey, it was just a thunderstorm and everyone got, you got 20 people that just got hit by lightning, you know, getting that mental state. Right.
Right. So, so there. It's that kind of scenario. And we didn't know how to take it until, uh, they called in the trucks and said, because we were infantry. So you walk everywhere or March, you March everywhere. Uh, if it's 20 miles that way, when we're marching 20 miles that way, when the captain came out, he said, listen, I'm going to have the cattle truck show up. And that's literally a cattle truck that they load cows onto. they load up all of us troops and take us back to the barracks. When the trucks actually showed up, that's when we knew something had happened because that was the first time in basic training that we didn't march to wherever it was we were going. That was kind of a heads up to like, hey, something serious may be afoot.
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