Overcoming Trauma: CSM Tonya Oxendine

Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories

Robert Kirk

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4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Warning, this episode contains harsh language, graphic violence, gore, and description of rape. Listener discretion is advised. CSM Tonya Oxendine served in the US Army for nearly 30 years, retiring as a Command Sergeant Major. She did two tours in Iraq & Afghanistan as a paratrooper. In this interview, Oxendine describes the abuse she endured both at home, and during her time in uniform, and how she overcame that trauma. Learn more about Oxendine and the Wounded Warrior Project here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.8	This episode contains harsh language, graphic violence, gore, and descriptions of sexual assault.
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1:23.5	I'm Ken Harbaugh, host of Warriors in their own words.
1:28.3	In partnership with the Honor Project, we've brought this podcast back at a time when our nation needs these stories more than ever. Warriors in their own words is our attempt to present
1:34.1	an unvarnished, unsanitized truth of what we have asked of those who defend this nation.
1:39.7	Thank you for listening, and by doing so honoring those who have served.
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