Before becoming a Navy TOPGUN F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot, Matthew “Whiz” Buckley carried deep wounds from a childhood marked by trauma and pain. Years of flying fighter jets and combat sorties over Iraq and witnessing the toll of service - on himself and those he led - only compounded the burden.

When the uniform came off, a new battle began. The transition to civilian life brought isolation, depression, and a descent into alcohol and substance use that nearly cost him everything.

Conventional treatments failed. But through one guided journey with sacred medicine, Whiz encountered God directly, healed lifetimes of pain, and remembered who he truly is. That experience became the seed of Sacred Warrior Fellowship - a mission to help others do the same.