Navy EOD officer turned addiction-treatment founder, Tom Sauer has seen both sides of the fight. After losing his father to addiction, he spent years defusing bombs overseas before realizing the real war was happening back home. In this episode he breaks down the crisis inside veteran mental health, the failures inside the VA, and why he built Miramar Health to give veterans a real shot at surviving addiction and trauma.

We cover his early Marine Corps years, counter-WMD work in Guam, leaving the Navy, and how he now treats veterans who arrive at rock bottom. Tom explains why trauma recovery, fitness, and community care aren’t optional if we want to save lives—and why the system has resisted change.

• Addiction is killing veterans faster than war ever did.

• Trauma recovery and structure change outcomes.

• Community Care must be enforced if the VA can’t meet demand.

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