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Army Ranger K9 Police Officer Jon Lindsey Part One | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 150

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.96.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Officer Jon Lindsey is what you'd call a 'dog guy'. He's also a husband, a father, and a veteran - he served as a Multi-Purpose Canine Handler while a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment. After the Army, he took up at the Savannah Police Academy in Georgia, where he trained police K9 prospects, until he officially joined the department in 2019.

Since then, it's been a wild ride serving the good people of Savannah, but it hasn't all been sunshine and rainbows. Let's meet the man.

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
02:44 - Vacation
08:43 - Fireworks over Disneyland
13:55 - R.A.S.P. - Ranger Assessment and Selection Program
23:40 - Expectation VS Reality
34:39 - Ranger School
49:32 - A PFC with a Ranger Tab
59:46 - Live Contact in Bagram
01:13:24 - Home for the Week
01:16:34 - K9 Oriented
01:23:32 - A Dog named Witty

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j_chris_l19

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgiapolicek9foundation

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Alright, what do you guys want to do?

0:02.0

Let's go throw a frag grenade in there and see if anyone's coming out.

0:08.0

True Ranger Fashion, we've got kick the door and throw a frag in, blows up.

0:11.0

Of course the guy doesn't come out so he just blew him up.

0:14.0

A buddy of mine actually shot this dude in the chest and he crumples back into the house.

0:17.0

What do you want to do now?

0:18.0

You're going to throw another frag and our commander gave us a agreement to throw a thermal bear grenade.

0:22.0

And I looked at my squathers and said, yeah, let's do that.

0:25.0

So we throw that in the house and it brings the whole structure down.

0:27.0

So it was just made of blood and sticks.

0:29.0

That was like a big no-no and I was supposed to like level structures without like GFC approval.

0:32.0

That was an organic munition.

0:33.0

It was a handheld.

0:34.0

I can't assume it's going to bring a whole single family home down.

0:37.0

We came up with this crazy plan of, I'm going to throw a 9 banger.

0:41.0

And while it's going off, they need to run out.

0:43.0

So we had the turp come up, tell them they give us the thumbs up, throw the 9 banger and they don't run.

0:48.0

9th bang goes off, small amount of silence and then they start running.

0:57.0

Welcome to Mike Drop, the podcast where relevancy is irrelevant.

1:05.0

And we don't give a shit about your feelings.

1:08.0

Ladies and gentlemen, as always, it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next guest to the podcast.

1:14.0

He spent six and a half years on active duty in the Ranger Regiment.

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