Episode Notes:

Evan talks with Casey Elliott, who spent 14 years in the U.S. Army and deployed to Iraq as one of the service's first IED hunters. Elliott reflects on the moral injury and post-traumatic stress he carried for years, and on the slow work of learning that struggling after combat is a human response rather than a defect to be hidden. Along the way, he describes the outlets that helped him set down the armor, from veteran retreats to an unlikely conversation with an AI chatbot that made his sessions with a human therapist easier.

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