Who Sees the Veteran? | Identity — The 1st Silent War | Brittinie Wick
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What happens when the uniform comes off—but part of you still needs that chapter of your life to be seen?
And what happens when people do not even recognize that you were the one who served?
For many veterans, transition is not simply about leaving the military. It is about deciding what parts of service you carry forward, what parts you release, and how you build a new identity without pretending that the person you were no longer matters.
For women veterans, there can be another layer entirely:
What happens when your service becomes invisible?
In this episode of Your Thoughts, Your Reality , Michael Cole sits down with Brittinie Wick, an eight-year U.S. Air Force veteran and former intelligence analyst who supported the RPA community and operations across the Middle East and Africa.
Today, Brittinie is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, fitness professional, military spouse, mother of four, advocate for women veterans, and founder and host of the Women Serve Too podcast—a platform created to help military women and veterans tell their stories, feel seen, and connect with others who understand what they have experienced.
Together, Mike and Brittinie explore Identity — The 1st Silent War .
Brittinie knew at a young age that military service was part of her calling. The events of September 11 deeply affected her as a child, and not long afterward, even a Disney movie— Cadet Kelly —helped reinforce the picture she had begun forming of women in military service.
At 18, she joined the Air Force.
The reality she encountered was far more complicated than the image she had imagined.
As an intelligence analyst, Brittinie learned to work in an environment where information mattered, mistakes had consequences, and some of the most important things happening in her life could not be discussed with the people closest to her.
She also experienced moments when her expertise was overlooked, questioned, or simply not heard—experiences that added another layer to what it meant to establish herself as a young woman serving in the military.
Then service became painfully personal.
Brittinie shares the impact of losing her friend Zach in the Frankfurt Airport shooting, the fear she experienced while her then-fiancé was deployed to Afghanistan, and what it was like receiving intelligence about attacks near his location while being unable to reach him.
She describes the panic, hypervigilance, compartmentalization, and pressure of knowing things she could not talk about while working in a culture where seeking mental-health support often carried stigma.
Years later, the Las Vegas shooting brought much of that trauma back to the surface.
And underneath those experiences was a much larger question:
Who was she becoming because of everything she had lived through?
This conversation connects directly to several of The 10 Silent Wars :
Identity — The 1st Silent War: “Who am I when the uniform, role, and security clearance no longer define me?”
Mission — The 2nd Silent War: “What do I do when the path I thought I was supposed to follow changes?”
Connection — The 3rd Silent War: “Where can I find people who actually understand what I experienced?”
Emotional Armor — The 7th Silent War: “What did I learn to keep inside because I believed I could not talk about it?”
Direction — The 8th Silent War: “How do I build a meaningful next chapter when the original plan no longer fits?”
Brittinie’s transition after service was anything but linear.
She originally believed law school and eventually politics were part of her future. After being rejected from law school twice, she had to reconsider a plan she had carried for years.
That pivot eventually led to an MBA, work in fitness, and then another realization: she was already spending much of her time helping clients work through physical limitations and injuries.
So she changed direction again.
Today, she is a licensed physical therapist.
Her story is a powerful reminder that changing direction does n