Travis Puryear is a devout Christian and family man. Travis holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Phoenix. He has worked in the service industry, car sales, construction, mobile phone sales and management, and served 9 years in the US Army Reserves. During his time in the Army Reserves, he was given experimental lots of the anthrax vaccine which forever changed his life and destroyed his health. Travis struggles daily, both physically and mentally, from the affects of this experimental vaccine, but he refuses to give up. Travis loves the outdoors and feels closest to God in the outdoors. He enjoys hunting, fishing, camping, and even yardwork. If it is outside, Travis usually enjoys it. While his capabilities have been severely limited by the friendly fire incident involving the vaccine, Travis refuses to give up the things in life that bring him the most joy. He truly knows that tomorrow is not guaranteed and does his best to make the most of every day.
Travis was a board member of a non-profit organization called Outdoors For Our Heroes (OFOH) and Got Your 6 Fishing (under one non-profit umbrella), which takes service-connected disabled veterans and first responders on hunting and fishing adventures where they can heal both mentally and physically. While this can be challenging at times for him, Travis enjoys helping other disabled veterans and first responders heal the way that OFOH helped him heal. Connecting with other disabled veterans has been crucial in Travis’ difficult journey on the road to some form of normalcy. He believes that helping other disabled veterans (especially those suffering from vaccine injury from a forced vaccine) is God’s mission for him here on Earth. Along with writing Friendly Fire: The Betrayal of One Soldier by the Government, Travis has written three children’s books: Cain Learns About Friends, Cain Learns About Play, and Cain Learns About Hunting. These stories feature Travis’ golden retriever Cain. Travis has also written Would God Forsake America, which will most likely come out in 2023.