Veterans discuss Bee's deployments to Afghanistan and as part of the security forces in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Sergeant Bill Bee opens up for the first time about his close call with the Taliban sniper in 2008, the IED blast that ended his combat career prematurely and the struggles he has faced since leaving the military.

Bill describes the moment he won the Purple Heart after years of campaigning from his wife Bobbie.

New York Post covering the Daily Mail’s story on Sergeant Bee winning the Purple Heart.

Bee is reunited with Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic, remembers his deployments as US troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2021 and reflects on the day in 2008 that changed his life

Bee uses the skills and techniques he learned in the Marines to become part of a video game with the help of veteran’s charity Stack Up.

Bee discusses the withdrawal of United States forces from Afghanistan, the chaotic scenes in Kabul and how the plan has now armed the Taliban with American weapons and vehicles.

Bee speaks to Associated Press reporter Ellen Knickmeyer, who first interviewed him when he was stationed at Kandahar in 2002. They reflect on the invasion 20 years on.

Bill and Bobbie talk with Jacksonville Daily News reporter James LaPorta about his shopping list of prescription medication that could kill him if taken together.

On Memorial Day 14 years ago I was in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, ready to go home to see my pregnant wife and family in North Carolina after months of endless gun fights with the Taliban and watching my friends die.

When the sun sets this Memorial Day, I will go out to my backyard, light my fire pit, pull up a lawn chair, pour myself a double Scotch and light a cigar.

Bill Bee talks about his Marine career, his deployments in Afghanistan and his personal battles since leaving the military. Discusses his first story with Wills Robinson on DailyMail.com and how that helped him get treatment.

Bill writes about The Shot that changed his life and how he has turned his life around since in AARP’s inaugural veteran’s newsletter edited by Toby Harnden.

Bill reflects on the Afghanistan war, the withdrawal, and the veterans who are still struggling to adapt after fighting in the post-9/11 wars.

Task and Purpose’s review of The Shot. “The Shot describes the almost impossible-to-fathom violence of combat action and the difficult years afterward.”

Bill’s interview with Coffee or Die about how he went from a band geek in high school to a Marine grunt.

An excerpt from The Shot on the moment Bill watches the attack on the Twin Towers during training at Camp Lejeune.

An excerpt on Bill’s struggles in his final years with the Marines and how he tried to take his life with two bottles of Tequila

An excerpt from The Shot describes the moment the sniper bullet hit a wall inches from his head - and the photos that gained him infamy

Bill speaks to Robert Child on his military podcast about The Shot

Bill speaks to John Waters about his experiences during and after the war and the men he served with.

“You can’t do this by yourself. There is help available but you’ve got to break down and ask for it,” Bill says

Bill on how a VA doctor told him marijuana could go a long way to help with his PTSD treatment but warned him she would be breaking the rules if she prescribed it.

“The list of powerful antipsychotics, antidepressants and other medications I was being prescribed had increased to eighteen pills every day”

Bill writes in the Independent how he is just one of the thousands of veterans deployed after 9/11 struggling with PTSD and fighting an invisible war they may never win.

Bill speaks to Tori Richards of the Washington Examiner about his battle to get medical retirement 12 years after leaving the Marines.

“:A Marine sergeant was turned into a visual icon when, in May 2008, Taliban fire just missed his head and a Reuters photographer captured the moment”