Combat Story (Ep 35): Jason Van Camp | Green Beret | Special Forces | Mission Six Zero | Author

Combat Story

Ryan Fugit

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🗓️ 31 July 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today we hear the Combat Story of Jason Van Camp, a former Special Forces officer (Green Beret) and Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) Commander in 10th Special Forces Group who served multiple combat deployments.

Jason played linebacker at West Point and served a two-year LDS-Mormon mission to Russia, and upon graduation won the prestigious General Loeffke Award for Excellence in Foreign Languages, before starting active duty. As a Green Beret, Jason brought the fight to AQ and led soldiers through dangerous Special Forces missions that honed his leadership and team building skills.

Since leaving the military, Jason founded and is Chairman of Mission Six Zero, a leadership development firm, and is also Executive Director and Co-Founder at Warrior Rising, which empowers veterans in business.
Jason is a Wall Street Journal and 2 x #1 Amazon Best Selling Author for his book Deliberate Discomfort: How U.S. Special Operations Forces Overcome Fear and Dare to Win by Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable and was recognized as a Top Military Entrepreneur of the Year in 2020.

I hope you enjoy his humble yet impactful Combat Story as much as I did.
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Show Notes

0:00 - Intro
0:54 - Jason Van Camp Guest Bio
1:48 - Interview Begins
3:44 - “I inspire other people to be the best version of themself.”
5:11 - Military history of the family
10:37 - The challenging West Point experience
13:14 - The football experience
15:52 - “You have to find a new purpose.”
16:29 - “Your worth as an officer is based on your ability to run a two-mile run test.”
22:33 - The Ranger School Idea
28:08 - “I love being an army, more so than ever thought I would”
28:19 - “I want to make an impact. I want to have a meaningful life. I want to have a purpose.”
35:39 - A rollercoaster of emotions
39:01 - “We had nowhere to go and nowhere to live.”
40:53 - “’ Peshmerga’ is translated to ‘those who faced death.’”
45:31 - “You’re in combat; you got to trust your gut.”
49:23 - “I wouldn’t trade that for Rob’s life.”
50:25 - Mission Six Zero
50:29 - “I’m happiest when I’m being selfish about being selfless.”
50:40 - The vision behind Warrior Rising
51:31 - Jason’s interest in giving back
53:48 - Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0	Three of the guys got into a stack and they went to assault the building and somebody got on
0:06.2	the roof of the building and with an AK and it's just sort of sprayed my guys as they were running up
0:13.0	and hit my team sergeant in his legs you know he went down and hit my senior 18 echo my engineer
0:21.1	Rob and him in the head and I was in the process of running down this car in my home V and we
0:28.8	hear on the radio you know he goes down he goes down he goes down now he's just pissed
0:35.4	welcome to combat story I'm Ryan Fugid and I serve war zone tours as an army attack helicopter
0:40.1	pilot and CIA officer over a 15-year career I'm fascinated by the experiences of the elite
0:45.7	and combat on this show I interview some of the best to understand what combat felt like on
0:50.9	their front lines this is combat story today we hear the combat story of Jason van camp the
0:57.0	former special forces officer an ODA commander in 10th special forces group who serve multiple
1:01.6	combat deployments to Iraq Jason played linebacker at West Point and served a two-year LDS
1:06.9	Mormon mission to Russia before starting active duty as a green array Jason brought the fight to
1:12.4	AQ and led soldiers through danger of special forces missions that honed his leadership and team
1:17.2	building skills since leaving the military Jason founded and his chairman of mission six zero
1:23.2	a leadership development firm and is also executive director and co-founder at warrior rising
1:28.8	which empowers veterans in business Jason is a Wall Street Journal and two-time Amazon
1:34.0	bestselling author for his book deliberate discomfort and was recognized as a top military
1:39.0	entrepreneur of the year in 2020 I hope you enjoy his humble yet impactful combat story as much as
1:45.7	I did Jason thanks for taking the time to share your story today absolutely Ryan thanks for
1:52.2	having me this is going to be a lot of fun I know it is and I want to start out going to I want to
1:58.3	pick up with you as a kid and in particular though I want to provide some context here I know we
2:03.1	we entered you are ready but you're a bestselling author basically two businesses you've helped
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