Carried Through the Fire is a powerful memoir of service, survival, faith, and redemption. As a Navy hospital corpsman attached to Marines during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Dereck Rickman faced the dangers of combat, the weight of responsibility, and the losses that came with war. But returning home did not end the battle. He carried invisible wounds into marriage, fatherhood, work, and everyday life, struggling with PTSD, traumatic brain injury, anger, isolation, and alcohol addiction. With honesty and hope, Dereck shares how faith, family, treatment, sobriety, and the courage to ask for help led him toward healing. This is more than a war story. It is a story for veterans, military families, people in recovery, and anyone fighting a battle no one else can see. The war ended. The hardest battle came home.