Despite never having seen active duty, he found himself assigned to the elite special operations unit and on his way to the Middle East. It turns out, in the whole of the United States Army, Eric was the only person who fitted that profile. And we’d love a graduate of Ranger School.’” “I don’t know if they were running out of interrogators,” he says “but Delta Force were going after Saddam and they said: ‘Find an interrogator who used to be in the infantry. When the invasion of Iraq took place in 2003, Eric was confident he wouldn’t be called up. “They said: ‘Don’t worry, you’ll never do interrogations,’” he recalls, adding: “but then we had 9/11.” A NEW DIRECTION He signed up, choosing Chinese Mandarin, and, as a result, was also enrolled on an eight-week interrogation course. He enjoyed speaking Spanish with the locals and discovered the army had a foreign languages programme. “I knew that was what I was supposed to do.”Īfter joining the infantry as a paratrooper, Eric was deployed to the central American nation of Panama. The idea that God had spoken to him and told him to join the army sounded “ridiculous” to the few friends he told. “I didn’t want to – I was not excited about it – but as soon as I graduated from university, I joined up.”Īlthough Eric had grown up going to church, he wasn’t a practising Christian. It wasn’t a natural fit for the sports-loving student, but Eric was convinced. “The voice was so clear, I knew I didn’t have a choice,” he says. Here’s what it means for your churchĮric Maddox never planned to become a soldier, until one day, as a 21-year-old “living the good life, no responsibilities”, he heard a voice telling him to join the military. Chat GPT: The biggest leap forward in AI is changing everything.Ukraine: Stories of hope amid heartache.Fearfully and wonderfully made: 5 disabled Christians share their stories.
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