Ep 452: The VA Said I Was Crazy—Turns Out It Was Just a Brain Tumor With Casey West

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Pj, Cct, Combat Control, Tacp, Government, Special Warfare, Assessment And Selection, Education, Pararescue, Special Reconnaissance, Tactical Air Control Party, Special Operations, Fitness, Selection, Self-improvement, Air Force, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Send us a text Welcome to the Ones Ready Podcast, where we don’t sugarcoat war, trauma, or government healthcare. In this jaw-dropping episode, Marine combat vet Casey West joins Aaron to share a story so absurd it’ll make your recruiter cry. Two-time Afghan deployment? Check. Aerial gunner turned motorcycle gang enforcer? Yep. Diagnosed with terminal brain cancer after the VA spent 8 years handing him pills and calling him crazy? You bet your ass. But here’s the twist—Casey didn’t die. He fl...

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0:00.0	One's ready.
0:01.1	All right.
0:03.2	Go!
0:07.3	Nobody's going to talk.
0:08.3	Welcome back to the podcast, everybody.
0:09.8	It's Aaron.
0:10.2	It's Trent.
0:10.7	It's Peaches.
0:11.2	What you're about to see is a great interview that I did with Casey West.
0:14.0	He's an amazing dude.
0:15.1	He's a combat Marine with two deployments.
0:17.2	He started off on the mechanic side and he ended up being a gunner on C.H.
0:21.4	53's not even anywhere near Casey's most interesting story. deployments. He started off on the mechanic side and he ended up being a gunner on CH53s.
0:26.4	That's not even anywhere near Casey's most interesting story. At the end of his career, Casey had to fight the military medical health system in order just to get the scans that he thought he needed.
0:31.5	He was having visual and audio hallucinations. He was having serious problems. The doctors were
0:36.4	telling him it was PTSD and mental health,
0:38.3	but Casey knew something was wrong. Man, it turns out this guy had what they told him was terminal
0:43.3	glioblastoma. It's a very aggressive brain cancer. Man, Casey's got a crazy story. He's continued his
0:49.8	fight to advocate for military health members and fight the military health system in the VA. He's doing great work.
0:54.8	You can find him over at, let's see if I can remember.
0:59.8	In mute, in me, I'll find the, you know what, Pige is going to do it.
1:04.2	Hey, I'm going to find his Instagram.
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