I’m sitting down today with a fellow former Marine fighter pilot who trusted his faith to guide him home from the battlefield and through his cancer journey.
Three weeks into his cancer fight, Lt Col David “T-Bone” Trombly abandoned the conventional treatment methods that were being pushed onto him. The medical staff at Bethesda must have thought that David had lost his mind. What they didn’t know is that he had God on his side.
Never doubt the power of faith or how far it can carry you through your darkest times.
Show Notes
🛫 David is a retired fighter pilot, current instructor, pilot, and chaplain.
00:46☎️ David and Bruce served together: horrible news ended his military career.
01:35👨⚕️ “Doc, I’m not dead yet.”
04:25👨👩👧👦 A 31-year-old father of four explains to kids he has cancer: First time David cried during his cancer battle.
07:48🤯 Rough 10-day stay in Bethesda hospital: “Nurse, I won’t be needing that bed, I plan to sleep with my wife in a hotel.”
09:54🥊 Becoming a cancer warrior: medical freedom. informed consent, and good leadership in the military permit David to get a second opinion from civil doctors.
15:27🛣️ David’s issues with his liver made double chemo impossible: deciding to take a holistic path.
20:00👩🦰 Megan read books about alternative medicine and healthy eating: having a vaccine-injured kid changed her point of view on things.
23:25🍀 Created a battle plan within three months: Raw diet, high dosage of vitamin c, shots, enzyme therapy, and all are written in David’s book.
27:50☹️ Cancer hadn’t spread through the rest of his body, but he was losing the battle anyway.
31:48😩 While you’re fighting the good fight, the enemy is attacking you with fear, doubt, and indecision.
35:07🙂 The phone call that changed his life: 30-day treatments in Switzerland.
38:57🗽 The world stopped turning on September 11, 2001, but David is declared cancer free.
43:39😲 David fights the Navy system: “I beat cancer with carrots, and you won't let me fly.”
🔨 Breaking the mold: David is the First Marine aviator to have beat cancer 100% natural and then get reinstated back on flights.
52:21🍏 The whole path of David’s healing is explained in his book
Grounded and Cured. 56:15🤩 The help David and Megan are providing to others and new ways of fighting today’s fight.
58:06⚠️ David’s message to everyone out there who is suffering.
01:03:09😇 Networking with people and conventional doctors open to alternative treatments.
01:04:09🥾 Training the next generation of aviators and supporting the Marines in Pensacola that are grounded.
01:06:56✌️ Support House Resolution 3860 from Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky and American Act: Thousands of military members that have been put on hold.
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