Dispatches From the Edge
Michael Dixon
The roughest days tend to teach the most.
Veteran · Combat Medic
Michael is a husband, a father, an Army Reserve combat medic and a healthcare professional who has spent close to 20 years looking after other people.
He writes Dispatches From the Edge for The Second Half Community, on leadership, family, purpose and resilience, drawing on military service, emergency medicine and ordinary life.
Background
- Army Reserve combat medic
- Healthcare professional, close to 20 years serving others
- Writes on leadership, family, purpose and resilience
“I don’t claim to have everything figured out, but I do believe honest stories have the power to encourage, challenge, and remind us that none of us has to walk this road alone.”
Dispatches From the Edge
Things They Don’t Put in the Manual
Eighteen and a half years in the Army, and the five things the training never covered.
Read the dispatch →In the Shadow of 25 Years
He was 23, closing down a bar the night before. Where he was the morning the towers fell, and what a quarter of a century has done since.
Read the dispatch →