Jeremy Healy served his country for 12 years in the US Army Reserves from 2001 to 2013. He was discharged as a sergeant.
His basic training at Fort Sill in Oklahoma began in somewhat dramatic fashion. âThings were a little relaxed when I first got there. I was signing my dog tag papers, when all of a sudden an air raid siren went off and they took us to a fieldâ¦said we could go home now if we wantedâtwo planes had just hit the World Trade Center. 9/11 had happened. From then on, they made things more intenseâ¦used live rounds of ammunition and trained us like crazy.â