My path to acceptance | Eric Yarger | TEDxCanberra

In this talk, former US Marine Eric Yarger gives us some insights into how he came to go to war, how it changed him, and how he found his road to acceptance.

From 2002 to­ 2014 Eric served as a US Mar­ine. First as a Recon­nais­sance Mar­ine and then as a Mar­ine Raider with Mar­ine Force Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Com­mand. He com­pleted six com­bat deploy­ments: four to Iraq and two to Afgh­anistan, including the inva­sion of Iraq and Oper­a­tion Vigil­ant Resolve, as well as broad com­bat oper­a­tions in Afgh­anistan. He has three awards for valour in com­bat, includ­ing Bronze Star with a V.

He is co-founder and Oper­a­tions Dir­ector for NOVOMODUS a com­pany that deliv­ers change man­age­ment, lead­er­ship and secur­ity solu­tions to organ­isa­tions seek­ing effect­ive and stra­tegic change. He is also the coun­try man­ager and trainer for Get­ting More Aus­tralia, train­ing high-stakes nego­ti­ation to a broad range of cli­ents from Google to Spe­cial Oper­a­tions and Intel­li­gence organ­isa­tions through­out the Asia­-Pacific region.

He lives in Can­berra with his wife and two chil­dren and the dog he brought home from Afghanistan.

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