Vets and Badges: Sergeant Major Tamir Ransom | Who Am I When the Uniform Comes Off
🎙️ On this episode of Vets and Badges, hosted by the MCN team, we welcome Sergeant Major Tamir Ransom—educator, author, and the first Afro-American Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta EOD operator in American history—for a raw and honest conversation on fear, resilience, and the search for identity after service. From defusing IEDs across 16 years of deployments to defusing the doubts that surface once the uniform comes off, Tamir shares the mindset that carried him through—and the message he now brings to fellow veterans.
Anything that I might have been feeling, oh, that thing got buried deep. But once I retired and that uniform came off, all that stuff started bubbling up to the surface… like, if I’m not an EOD guy anymore, who the hell am I?
Everybody’s always like, visualize the win. Man, I visualize the losses, dude… That way, I’m not afraid to lose.
🎖️ In this episode, we discuss:
– Life as a Tier 1 EOD operator and the mindset behind the mission
– Confronting fear through radical acceptance
– Taking life ‘a meal at a time’ to push through the hardest days
– Deployments across Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria
– The struggle with identity after retiring from service
– Reaching out, telling the truth, and finding a new purpose
Don’t miss this powerful conversation, and stay tuned for future episodes featuring more of the veterans and first responders who serve our communities.
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