160: Part 2: Javier Mackey– 20-year U.S. Army Special Forces decorated combat veteran

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Murph interviews Javier Mackey, a retired U.S. Army Green Beret combat veteran. They discuss who and what influenced Javier’s life, his enlisting in the U.S. Army, and becoming a member of Special Forces. Having spent multiple deployments in Afghanistan and other countries, Javier talks about being shot several times while in combat. He also describes the terrible day when his close friend and brother in arms, Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller, was killed in action while drawing enemy fire so others could move to a position of cover. For his actions, Staff Sgt Miller received the Congressional Medal of Honor, and Javier was awarded a Bronze Star with V. Murph and Javier cover the toll his military career took on his family, how Javier dealt with PTSD, his plans to help other veterans when they return home, and his creation of a new podcast, “Looking Over Strange Terrain.”

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0:00.0	Okay. Okay, so we got you at Fort Campbell, but you're ready, you're ready to move on out of there, aren't you?
0:20.0	Yeah, so my wife, so I came down on orders because I was airborne qualified to go to
0:26.7	Fort Brack which I was real excited for I started reading all the books about it
0:31.9	Started asking guys in the platoon like who's been to
0:34.9	brack or who's been to North Carolina and one of the guys I mean my
0:39.1	platoon he was like hey bro you're there, nice lush mountains, got the Appalachian Trail, you got,
0:47.9	wake up in the morning, you look across the valley, and there's fog and the trees,
0:52.1	swirled your dress.
0:53.3	I was like, yeah.
0:54.8	And then, but in Bragg, Fort Brack.
0:58.0	So, hold on, hold on.
0:59.8	I've been there.
1:00.7	I've been there.
1:01.9	So here we are, we're driving like we leave Clarksville, Tennessee,
1:08.0	started heading east. We get to, we break that Tennessee North Carolina line and we're going up to Asheville and like he said it was beautiful.
1:17.0	I was like, wow, this is, I understand now why guys stay, because you hear about guys going to brag and never leave.
1:25.0	And I understand why now.
1:26.7	And so we were rolling up into,
1:29.9	but I'm like looking at the car map,
1:32.2	we stop off in and Asheville and I'm looking at the
1:36.4	car map I'm like man we still got quite a distance to go and I'm only say well I hope it looks the same there as it does here and my
1:46.8	wife is like she grew up in Germany and she's like wow this does remind me of
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