Wellness
Getting well is not the finish line. A warfighter needs a reason to stay well - a mission, a family to serve, people who know the plan. This lane is about what keeps you standing after the treatment works: purpose, battle buddies, and the people who carry you when you can’t.
Keep Your Mission
Boone’s rule was simple: a warfighter with a mission is a deadly warfighter, and a warfighter without one is in danger. Purpose is not a luxury after service. It is equipment. The second line of the pledge is a mission statement for a reason - find a mission to help your warfighter family.
Battle Buddies - Anybody Willing
A battle buddy is not a job title and not a uniform. Your spouse can be one. A civilian friend can be one. The test is one question.
“Anybody who’s willing to save your life? That’s a battle buddy.”
From Battle Buddy To Suicide Understanding The Darkest Thoughts
Two is one and one is none. If you don’t have a battle buddy yet, naming one is the single most protective thing you can do this week. → Take the Spartan Pledge
For the Caregivers
Boone said on tape what most warfighters won’t: he could run his own care for about a week before it went sideways, and his wife was the reason it held together. Caregiving is a parallel tour of duty. This track is for the spouses, parents, and battle buddies doing it.
His own account of being cared for.
Lets Talk With Boone Caregivers
What caregiving costs a family, in his words.
VA Caregiver Program
The VA Caregiver Program, step by step - the full walkthrough episode with the VA’s own coordinator. → Caregiver walkthrough
Nobody hands the caregiver a manual. Malisa Cutler was Boone's caregiver - on his paperwork, in the fight - for fifteen years, through Walter Reed, the cocktail years, the appeals, and the appointments. This track is what she wishes someone had handed her: what the VA caregiver program actually is, how to apply, and how to stay standing while you hold the line for somebody else.
Ask Boone
Real questions, answered by the man himself, on tape: Can a civilian be a battle buddy? Why doesn’t the pledge say “never”? How does a mom help?
Still Here
Story zero is Boone’s - trap, break, what worked, mission, in his own footage.
Story One - The Sword
Steve Danyluk - “Luker,” U.S. Marine Corps veteran and commercial airline pilot - tells it on tape in the pro shoot: talking with FDNY firefighter Danny Prince about the steel Prince had from the World Trade Center, the answer became the Spartan Sword.
On tape · 2:18 →“Why don't we make a sword out of the steel from 9/11? And just the reverence and the importance of that steel would mean so much more to these servicemen and women. So that's what we did.”
Take the pledge. Name your battle buddy. Find your mission.