Injured Combat Vet Writes a Book That Can Transform Lives!

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Eugene Bennett was born and raised in Wisconsin. He really enjoyed playing outdoors as a kid growing up. He had a rough childhood and eventually ended up joining the Marine Corps. He later joined the Army National Guard, then the Army Reserves and he ended up getting deployed to Iraq, twice. During one deployment, the vehicle he was driving was struck by an IED and he suffered a traumatic brain injury. He is still dealing with the symptoms of his injury to this day along with the resultant treatment.

“Gene Bennett deployed to Iraq twice, once in 2005 and again from April 2007 to December 2008. He spent his first deployment in a tire tent changing lots and lots and lots of truck tires. He was attached to three different units in his second deployment. The first unit put him on prison guard duty, or what he calls “the worst babysitting job ever.” He was a diesel technician and a truck driver with the other two.He loves good music, cooking, hitting the gym regularly, and hopes to get back to school to increase the odds of getting back into the automotive technician industry. After his deployment, he was diagnosed with P.T.S.D. and says that, along with some severe depression, destroyed the things he loved to do and his desire to be proficient.

He hopes to work on recovery, a cookbook and a writer’s guide to help others tell their stories.”

Regarding his first book: “An Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran tells the gripping story of “Forward Operating Base: Crapper,” a transitional prison with a violent juvenile detainee population where no one is immune from the heat, hatred and fear. Recovering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Gene Bennett, callsign Spazmasterflex, also explores his broken family relationships. By using brutal honesty, he hopes his Baghdad Brethren Band and other veterans will read this book and realize they are not alone.”

Thank you for being our guest on The Mike Litton Experience Eugene! Keep up the good work!

To buy Eugene’s book visit: https://www.amazon.com/We-Did-Not-Deserve-Crapper/dp/B09WHJFRND

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mike Litten Experience Podcast.
0:05.0	Mike has over 31 years experience in real estate, finance, and investing.
0:11.0	He's passionate about being a father, a teacher, a realtor, an investor, and a leader.
0:18.0	Everyone has a story and our passion is to help them tell it. And now introducing the host of the Mike Litten experience, Mike Litten.
0:28.0	So what can you expect from the Mike Linton experience? You can expect stories that will inspire,
0:37.6	motivate, advice that will sharpen your focus, and expert information on real estate, finance, and market conditions.
0:47.0	Mickey Seaberson, thank you so much for being our guest on the Mike Linton experience.
0:52.0	I'm super excited for our time together and like we talked
0:55.2	about before we hit record, everybody has a story and our passion is to help them tell it. So with your permission,
1:01.9	we're going to start with where you were born all the way up to today and we have a bunch of things you're working on that we want to talk about, okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, cool. So where were you born? I was originally born in Little Tom Call
1:14.0	Menominee Falls, Wisconsin.
1:16.0	It's a really nice suburb just outside of Milwaukee.
1:20.0	Well, at least it was when I was there.
1:22.0	I don't know what I started to do now.
1:24.4	Now, here's the story of how I got the name,
1:26.2	Mickey.
1:26.2	My name is Eugene Bennett.
1:28.5	I was born on my father's birthday, okay?
1:32.1	And this is in the book. So, my mother was giving, it was in
1:41.0	labor with me. She was was apparently they gave her some some labor
1:46.1	inducing meds because I'm like now I'm coming out now this place sucks now send
1:50.3	me back so so she's watching the Mickey Mouse Club high on whatever me if I wanted to be named Mickey,
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