People can’t figure out where EJ Snyder gets his energy. The survival expert’s ever-growing roster of projects includes a survival skills teaching platform, a nonprofit to help fellow veterans, and even a brewery and pickle company. “I’m like a shark. I can’t sit still,” he said. “A friend described me as a tall glass of energy drink, and at 58 years old, men half my age can’t keep up with me.”
At the time of this interview, the North Carolina-based Snyder was teaming up with other veterans who swung into action in Hurricane Helene’s aftermath, clearing up impassable roads, delivering supplies, and searching for missing people.
