#284 - 40 DEAD INSURGENTS | Navy Cross Recipient Jeremiah Workman

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

When Jeremiah Workman was in the US Marine Corps, he received the Navy Cross for his actions during a three-hour firefight in a Fallujah building trying to get up a staircase to get to three brother Marines who had fallen. Workman talks with Black Rifle Coffe Co.'s Evan Hafer about his struggles with transitioning to civilian life since his time in Iraq, how he's worked to help his fellow veterans and focus on his family as his touchstone, and why on earth he has decided to get into politics. 🥇 Explore Black Rifle’s Award-Winning Coffee ✅ Subscribe, like, and leave your comments below to join the conversation on everything from coffee roasting techniques to Evan's unfiltered thoughts on life, business, and creativity.

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0:00.0	And I heard gunfire. He rubbed from across the street and it was just kind of welcome to the wild, wild west
0:07.4	We fought for three hours up and then
0:10.2	Trying to get up the staircase down for Nade's going back and forth
0:14.4	M67 fragitated my hand
0:18.6	And it's like
0:21.5	But after they kick one back at you, it's after I have to do this right or they're gonna roll at a die
0:27.6	Black rightful podcast starts now. So people often refer to you as Jeremiah
0:35.2	Yep, is that like the main name that you go by or do you do you go by other nicknames?
0:41.4	Every once in a while they call me Thumper. That was our call sign really like you specifically. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense
0:49.5	Jeremiah Jeremiah yep
0:52.3	Hmm
0:54.3	Workman do they often get you confused with people that do significant amounts of work
1:03.0	You know once upon a time yeah
1:06.6	Yeah, how many how many years you doing the record?
1:09.6	Little nine and some change. Yeah, you get out because of the injury here. I was medically retired
1:15.4	What what so what what happened was the injury?
1:18.6	Not to relive the life
1:21.0	I took shrapnel of my right side, but
1:25.6	back
1:27.2	TBI it's not you know
1:30.3	From a frag or from
1:32.6	Yeah, yeah, we were
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