Brian Castner served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer in the US Air Force from 1999 to 2007, deploying to Iraq to command bomb disposal units in Balad and Kirkuk in 2005 and 2006.

His memoir "The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows" is the story of his struggle to survive modern combat in Iraq and his personal tale of confronting the new person he had become upon returning to his family.

Castner astonishes audiences with his powerful and harrowing story of the terror, excitement, and camaraderie of combat, and the lonely battle against the unshakeable fear, anxiety, and survivor guilt that he—like so many veterans—carries inside.

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