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This is actually the true tale of two adorned combat veterans connected by tragedy, who come home from the Middle East and find a fresh way to save their comrades and repair their country. In Charlie Mike, Joe Klein explains to the dramatic tale of Eric Greitens and Jake Timber, larger-than-life warfare heroes who come home and use their armed service discipline and beliefs to help others. That is a story that was not told before, one of the most hopeful to emerge from Iraq and Afghanistan - a saga of lives kept, not wasted. Greitens, a Navy SEAL and Rhodes scholar, spends years employed in refugee camps before he joins the armed service. He enlists because he thinks the innocent of the world need closely armed, moral coverage. Wounded in Iraq, Greitens comes back home and finds that his fellow veterans at Bethesda Naval Hospital all want a similar thing: They want to continue to provide their country in some way, no subject the extent of these injuries. He founds The Objective Continues to provide paid general population service fellowships for wounded veterans. One of the first Objective Continues fellows is charismatic previous marine sergeant Jake Timber, a natural innovator who commenced Team Rubicon, arranging 9/11 veterans for dangerous catastrophe relief projects surrounding the world. "We do chaos," he says. The chaos they face is not only in the roads of Haiti following the 2011 earthquake or in New York City after Hurricane Sandy - it is also in the lives of these fellow veterans, who've come home from the wars traumatized and buying a sense of goal. Greitens and Timber believe that the armed service virtues of willpower and selflessness, of sacrifice for the higher good, can save lives - and not simply the lives of these fellow veterans. They believe that invigorated veterans can lead, by personal example, to stronger communities - and they prove it in Charlie Mike.
