Beyond the Beret
The war ended. Coming home was another battle entirely.
In Beyond the Beret, US Army veteran Jesse Johnston tells the raw and deeply personal story of a young man from rural Idaho who became a paratrooper, sniper, and infantry leader-and went to war before he was old enough to understand how much of it he would carry home.
From the invasion of Iraq to the mountains of Afghanistan, Johnston writes about combat, loss, dark humor, and the extraordinary brotherhood forged between soldiers when survival depends on the man beside you.
But the hardest chapters began after the deployments ended.
Medical retirement stripped away the identity and purpose the Army had given him. Then came grief, broken relationships, the suicide of his wife Holly, and nights when surviving himself became harder than surviving the enemy ever had been.
This is not only a memoir about war.
It is a story about what happens afterward-about rebuilding a life through fatherhood, therapy, ranching, service, emergency medicine, and helping other veterans find their own reasons to stay.
Unfiltered, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, and ultimately hopeful, Beyond the Beret is a story for anyone who has ever been knocked down hard enough to wonder whether getting back up was possible.
Some wars follow us home.
They just don't get to have the last word.
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