Ep. 162 | The Life of a Special Operations Medic

Vortex Nation Podcast

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy and Ryan Muckenhirn are joined by former special operations medic, James Davenport, and DJ Struntz of North American Rescue to talk all about James’ incredibly interesting life in the armed forces serving as a medic in some of the most hostile environments on the planet. We should note that if anyone out there gets lightheaded from listening to someone talk about traumatic injury and blood, you may not want to listen to this one while operating any heavy machinery! James tells us about why he entered the armed forces, why he chose the path of becoming a special operations medic and gives just a glimpse into the amount of training that was necessary to not only be an extremely effective combat medic, but one that was also a swiss army knife of other skillsets on the battlefield. Finally, we also got the very unique opportunity to listen to his story of not one, but two times encountering improvised explosives in the field, changing his life forever. It truly takes a warrior to have lived through all the experiences James has seen, so when given the opportunity to talk to him all about it, we jumped at the opportunity! As always, we want to hear your feedback! Let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation™ podcast by asking us on Instagram @vortexnationpodcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and good food. What's up vortex nation.
0:19.0	We're here, got a really good one ahead of us.
0:22.0	And if you're watching on the video the setup in here is a
0:25.2	little bit different because actually mr muckin her and is to my left not mark mark is
0:29.2	out hunting currently I think that he heard DJ was coming.
0:34.0	DJ Strunt's sitting across the table for myself.
0:36.3	And last time DJ was here, he slapped a turnicin on Mark.
0:39.2	Mark felt very uncomfortable.
0:41.0	And so anyways, I think that's why he picked this week to bounce
0:44.4	specifically and no Eric and no Eric is it well Eric is here but Eric is
0:48.5	he's also yes not really here but anyway also across the table from us and
0:53.5	DJ you've been on the podcast once before so if people go back and see the
0:56.8	old boats and bows pod venture he helped us figure out you know a lot of
1:01.6	backcountry your backwoods sort of trauma and preparedness.
1:06.7	But also with DJ is James Davenport and both you guys are with North American Rescue. And so both of you guys are with North American Rescue, and so both of you guys are, I'm blaming you,
1:16.9	you're responsible for when I'm scrolling through Instagram and it's just a fine bluebird day and
1:21.4	all of a sudden I see someone with a leg blown off or something like that.
1:25.0	It happens. It does.
1:27.0	I'll take responsibility for that.
1:28.0	The thing is, the thing is, it's graphic, but it's also real, so I know you guys aren't doing it's all for the shock value.
1:35.3	There's definitely a lot of learning there too.
1:37.3	Is there any that we're not doing for a shock value?
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