Air Force PJ Jason Sweet - Part One | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 148
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Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2023
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Nowadays he's running an elite Special Operations training program called SOCOM Athlete, merging his knowledgebase with other professionals from different arms of the military to train America's next generation of warriors. But to hear where he came from, you might be surprised to see how far he's come.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:26 - I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist
09:39 - Waking Up at 3:45am
17:12 - A Small Town in the Desert
23:04 - You Have What's Called 'Deadarm'
36:05- Training for Parajumping
51:33 - SEALS vs PJ's
01:07:58 - HALO School, EMT Certified
01:12:56 - Surprise, Dad's My Roommate
01:20:27 - Aghanistan to Pakistan
01:35:36 - High Ops - The Casualty Evacuation Platform
01:39:09 - Mission #0427 - Alpha
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| 0:00.0 | Well, um, apparently the the packies didn't want us there and they hated the fact that Americans |
| 0:08.4 | were in their country and they wanted to be able to solve the problem on their own and so we |
| 0:12.1 | started getting a lot of resistance from day one. I had a couple team guys from the West Coast |
| 0:16.6 | that would come out and help me out run these events and then in Texas I'd have active duty |
| 0:20.4 | PJs that would come out and Tucson we had PJs we had all kinds of former seals whatever it would be |
| 0:25.7 | and it was primarily young stud active duty guys and retired guys that had phenomenal stories |
| 0:30.4 | we come out and mentor these guys for a seven to eight hour day you know people would say hey |
| 0:35.2 | when you get a big mission it's it's gonna be when you least expect it and whenever a mission |
| 0:40.1 | would go down you'd hear scramble scramble scramble on the walkie-talkie and you know that's |
| 0:44.2 | when your blood starts boiling and you sprint out to the flight line you got the helos there |
| 0:48.2 | and um so I'm like dude like this is this is the real deal |
| 0:59.2 | welcome to mic drop the podcast where relevancy is irrelevant and we don't give a shit about your |
| 1:05.3 | feelings ladies and gentlemen as always it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next guest |
| 1:11.9 | to the podcast he spent six years on active duty from 08 to 2014 with a special operations unit |
| 1:19.1 | known as the para rescument or PJs with the US Air Force coincidentally and very unique to any |
| 1:26.1 | story I've ever heard his dad and him served together as PJs gone through courses together and |
| 1:31.6 | were there at the same time which is pretty awesome which we'll get into he received the air |
| 1:36.6 | metal with v and a combat action ribbon he spent two years as a human performance researcher |
| 1:42.7 | at the defense and security research institute at the university of Arizona he spent five years |
| 1:47.6 | developing curriculum for human performance in a similar fashion and since 2017 so for the last |
| 1:53.6 | almost six years now he's been the CEO of a company called socom athlete which we will get into |
| 1:59.3 | ladies and gentlemen he may be sweet but don't call him sugar welcome to the stage Jason sweet |
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