Combat Story (Ep 45): Dan Pronk Part 2 | Australian SASR | Doctor | Resilience Shield | Entrepreneur

Combat Story

Ryan Fugit

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🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Today we hear the second round of our Combat Story with Dan Pronk, a former Australian SAS officer and medical doctor who completed four tours to Afghanistan.

In round one we covered Dan’s first calling as a triathlete until he found himself in medical school, and, eventually, SAS selection. We covered some of his initial deployments.

In round two we move into the more difficult deployments Dan faced when things started getting darker, as they so often do.

We also discuss Dan’s newly released book - Resilience Shield - which takes SAS resilience lessons and applies them to everyday life to thrive, much as Dan has.

Dan went on to found a multi-million dollar company - TACMED - and has written two other books: Arterial Tourniquets and Average 70kg D**khead.

Dan is the most unassuming doctor you’ll ever find and I hope you enjoy this second round interview Down Under as much as I did.

Show Notes

0:00 - Intro
0:57 - Dan Pronk intro and bio
1:52 - Interview begins
4:12 - The Afghanistan pull out
10:58 - Desperately wanting to get back into combat
15:00 - Find Fix Finish for Psychological Trauma
20:43 - Third deployment “hugely kinetic”
24:43 - The Suckmeter
27:38 - The build-up of PTSD
45:36 - How to make resilience insights to bulletproof operators
55:50 - Dan’s first classic car purchase and how not to make your wife happy
1:09:00 - The Unforgiving Sixty podcast by Dan Pronk’s Resilience Shield Co-author
1:09:46 - What did you carry with you into combat every time?
1:11:57 - Would you go back and do it all again?
1:15:43 - Listener Comments and Shout Outs

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Find Dan online:

Website Resilience Shield
LinkedIN Dan Pronk
Instagram @danpronk
Book Average 70kg D**khead
Book Arterial Tourniquets
Book Resilience Shield
TacMed
Delta Automotive

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0:00.0	We were doing a lot more projecting down into helmet and province and so we were almost
0:03.4	guaranteed gunfights every time we went out and so it had evolved from that first rotation
0:08.5	lots of longer vehicle mounted patrols, you'd get in the occasional gunfight but certainly
0:14.0	not as kinetic to the almost guaranteed every time you went out gunfighting and the amount
0:21.4	of just global sort of trauma coming through the forward surgical teams and getting picked
0:27.0	up by the aeromedical evacuation assets and these sort of things that we're involved
0:31.2	in was it was non-stop so it was it was this day in day out exposures.
0:37.8	Welcome to Combat Story. I'm Ryan Fugid and I serve WarZoom tours as an Army attack helicopter
0:42.3	pilot and CIA officer over a 15 year career. I'm fascinated by the experiences of the
0:47.5	elite in combat. On this show I interview some of the best to understand what combat
0:52.3	felt like on their front lines. This is Combat Story. Today we hear the second round of
0:58.0	our combat story with Dan Prok, the former Australian SAS officer and medical doctor who
1:03.0	completed four tours to Afghanistan. In round 1 we covered Dan's first calling as a triathlete
1:09.2	till he found himself in medical school and eventually SAS selection. We also touched
1:13.8	on his first deployments. In round 2 we move into the more difficult deployments Dan faced
1:19.3	when things started getting darker as they so often do. We also discuss Dan's newly
1:23.8	released book, Resilience Shield which takes SAS Resilience lessons and applies them to
1:29.2	everyday life to help others thrive much as Dan has. Dan went on to found a multi-million
1:35.4	dollar company TACMED and has written two other books, material tourniquets and average
1:40.5	70 kilogram dickhead. Dan is the most unassuming doctor you'll ever find and I hope you enjoy
1:46.3	the second round interview down under as much as I did.
1:51.8	Dan thanks for taking time to share your story a second time round 2 here with us.
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