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Combat Story

Combat Engineer | First Female Reservist Ranger School Graduate | Engineer | Talent War | Lisa Jaster

Combat Story

Ryan Fugit

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4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2022

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Today we hear a unique Combat Story from Ranger-qualified and former Engineer in combat Lisa Jaster who was the first female reservist to complete Ranger School…at the age of 37 with two kids!

Lisa is still in the reserves and recently rotated out of Battalion Command where she led Combat Engineers as she did early in the post-9/11 era as a young active-duty lieutenant, including in 2002 in Afghanistan, 2003 in Iraq, and back to Iraq 15 years later.

Her story is remarkable and highlights how much harder she worked to reach levels many others take for granted. She’s a West Point grad and stood on the shoulders of the brave women who came before her in breaking the barrier of women at the Academy only to break a similar barrier herself.

Beyond being a sought-after public speaker, accomplished entrepreneur, and part of retired DEVGRU Mike Sarraille’s Talent War Group, Lisa is also a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighter and CrossFit athlete and is getting ready to release her first book that describes her journey.

This is a phenomenal and wide-ranging interview with an accomplished, tough-as-nails Ranger and I hope you enjoy her story of perseverance as much as I did.

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Show Notes:

  • 0:00 - Intro
  • 0:56 - Guest Introduction (Lisa Jaster)
  • 2:29 - Interview begins
  • 2:42 - A passion for Brazilian jujitsu
  • 6:06 - Being an unconventional Military couple and making sure her son can fight
  • 10:06 - Childhood as a naturally driven person and where the military comes in
  • 14:55 - Funny story of Army interview
  • 17:16 - Going to West Point and and choosing Engineer Branch after graduating
  • 27:37 - What is Engineers and their role in Afghanistan 2002
  • 33:24 - Where were you on 9/11?
  • 41:06 - Story about combat patches
  • 45:01 - How an engineer prepares for deployment
  • 47:48 - Family and feelings before and during a dangerous deployment
  • 53:47 - "There's no book for this" and funny story of trying to communicate with Pakistani man
  • 55:27 - Building the airfield in Afghanistan and funny story about constructing the sewage pond
  • 58:27 - From Afghanistan to Iraq
  • and being an SME as a First Lieutenant
  • 1:06:42 - Processing difficult experiences and how jujiostu helped
  • 1:09:33 - Ranger school
  • 1:21:17 - Advice for someone wanting to go to BUD/S or Ranger School
  • 1:29:04 - Hell Week at Ranger School
  • and being in the first ever class with women
  • 1:43:57 -Mixed emotions on graduating Ranger School
  • 1:47:48 - Full circle moment meeting author Carol Barkalow
  • 1:51:36 - What's the first thing you ate coming out of Ranger School?
  • 1:52:46 - What did you carry into combat?
  • 1:55:08 - Would you do it again?
  • 1:57:11 - Listener comments and shout outs

This video covers the following subjects: - First Female Reservist Ranger School Graduate - Ranger School - Combat Leader - Combat Engineer Lisa Jaster Maj. Lisa Jaster, an Army Reserve soldier, performs a fireman's carry-on on a simulated casualty during the Ranger Course at Ft. Benning, GA. The 37-year-old engineer and mother of two children, aged 7 and 3, is the first female Army Reserve officer to graduate from Ranger School.

When Maj. Lisa Jaster walks across Victory Pond Friday at Fort Benning, she will secure her role in history as the first female Army Reserve officer to earn the distinctive black-and-gold shoulder tab. However, the 37-year-old engineer and mother of two children, aged 7 and 3, is the third female to graduate from the grueling combat leadership course, joining the ranks of fellow West Point graduates and Active Duty officers Capt. Kristen Griest, 26, and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, 25.

If you would like to learn more about First Female Reservist Ranger School Graduate, Lisa Jaster I suggest you look into our various other video clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCyApoJr-mNmdMNwdk22xEQ _________________________

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I wanted to be a female that graduated Ranger School

0:03.9

so that other females could go,

0:06.2

but I didn't wanna be a female Ranger.

0:08.6

Like, I don't want that asterisk.

0:10.6

I've never wanted that asterisk on my PT test, on this.

0:14.2

Like, even if I fail, I don't want it to be,

0:16.7

oh, well, you're a woman.

0:17.9

But when everything left and it was just me and my guys,

0:21.0

I was just one of the guys.

0:22.8

And the minute we walked into Victory Pond,

0:25.1

it was like lights and cameras and people talking to me

0:28.4

that really don't care about me,

0:30.6

but they care about what I did,

0:32.7

which is extremely important.

0:35.2

But I did feel that part of that day

0:39.8

was de-emphasizing everyone else

0:43.0

who did the exact same thing that I did.

0:45.2

They helped me.

0:46.1

I couldn't have graduated without them.

0:47.4

And now I'm getting all of the attention.

0:49.2

And that was mentally a little defeating for me.

0:52.9

So I took my uniform off that day

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