238: Part 2: 8 Years Firing From the Sky — Now She Saves Newborns

Game of Crimes

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🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In Part 2 of this exclusive interview, Mary reveals what happened when the resilience that kept her alive in combat collided with the emotional toll of saving premature babies — and how COVID-19 pushed her to a breaking point she never saw coming. She opens up about nurse burnout, the invisible wounds veterans carry into civilian careers, and the self-care journey that saved her.

This is the story the military didn't prepare her for.

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0:00.0	All these different operations are happening all throughout the country of Afghanistan or wherever
0:04.3	you're deployed for that. And basically they say, okay, this mission gets a gunship.
0:09.8	And sometimes you're just going out and you're supporting the guys and there's not a whole
0:13.2	lot going on. Anthony touched on it really about the noise signature. When we come, our guys,
0:20.0	no, all right, guys.
0:21.7	And then the enemy knows, like, it's on.
0:24.1	Like, the battlefield just changed.
0:26.4	And they learned who we were.
0:27.9	And so a lot of times in Afghanistan, nothing would happen because they know what's
0:31.0	going to happen.
0:31.5	We can see everything.
0:33.0	But that means the Americans or partner forces, they get to sleep.
0:37.7	When you're out and you're running convoys, you're running missions 24-7, you're on high alert.
0:43.9	You are troops in contact.
0:46.0	A couple hours of sleep, that's a game changer.
0:49.2	And so to be able to provide that for those guys so they can just go, oh, I can breathe for a second. Yeah, there's
0:55.2	nothing better. I'm Steve Murphy, DEA Special Agent Retired and now host of the Game of Crimes
1:01.0	podcast. If you've seen the Netflix series Narcos, then you know my story. I now bring you
1:07.3	stories of heroism and bravery from our law enforcement and military heroes
1:12.0	and occasionally from the criminals that they faced.
1:15.7	Welcome to Game of Crimes.
1:31.5	Yep, you came back to the right place.
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