Episode 380: Mission Resilience with Jariko Denman (Part 2)
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Jariko was born in Washington DC and as a military brat grew up all over the world. In 1997 he enlisted in the US Army.
After basic training and Airborne School he completed the assessment and selection process for the 75th Ranger Regiment and was assigned to the 2nd Ranger Battalion at Ft Lewis Washington.
Jariko went on to serve in the Ranger Regiment for 15 and a half years where he deployed to combat 15 times in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2002-2012 as a Weapons Squad Leader, Rifle Platoon Sergeant, Senior Enlisted Advisor, and Company First Sergeant.
Jariko Retired from active duty in 2017 after four years as the Senior Military Science Instructor at St. John's University in New York City.
Since Retiring he has advised and produced on major motion pictures, national ad campaigns, and television series'. Jariko is now the Media 1SG for Black Rifle Coffee, reporting from combat zones and producing epic original content.
Follow Jariko on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laidbackberserker
Here's the dispatch Jariko wrote during the Afghanistan evacuation: https://www.coffeeordie.com/inside-kabul-airport-death-metal
A dispatch from on the ground in Ukraine when the invasion was just starting: https://www.coffeeordie.com/kyiv-dispatch
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, but Jericho Devon, bye. Hey, this is part two. Part two. So we did part one on Mission |
| 0:21.4 | Resilience on Phil Craft Survival's podcast. So I'm forcing you to go back as you |
| 0:25.5 | hear one of the best podcasts we've ever done in the history of podcast. We talked about Jericho's |
| 0:32.3 | career leading up all the way to the O5 trip. And so this is part two of that. It's going to be |
| 0:38.6 | shared on both Black Gravel Coffee's podcast as well as Phil Crafts, but please go back and listen |
| 0:43.4 | to part one. It's a great podcast. I mean, it's been a while since we did a podcast, but |
| 0:50.7 | that was like when it was called outside. Yeah, it was O6. O6. We did that podcast. |
| 0:57.9 | O5, you were with at the time C Squadron and your team was augmenting. Right. Yeah. |
| 1:08.9 | It was that troop there. They did a mission. They took pretty, they took very heavy casualties |
| 1:14.8 | on a mission they did. So they were kind of non-FMC. They put a RFF for Crest for Forces, |
| 1:21.4 | you know, just basically they needed some more dudes. So I was kind of the senior squad leader |
| 1:27.2 | in my company at the time. And they were like, hey, pick a dream team and go out there and augment |
| 1:34.6 | this troop for the remainder of this deployment. I just took my own squad. I took my favorite |
| 1:41.4 | guys from my own squad. I wasn't going to pick like a new team and went out there and yeah, it was |
| 1:48.8 | I've talked about it before. That deployment like forged me for the rest of my career. |
| 1:56.2 | For a number of reasons, like I was a senior squad leader in my company, but that was a point in |
| 2:04.4 | time when the unit was a lot more senior than it was towards the end of the war. Yeah. It was |
| 2:09.9 | a guy that's like, you know, for instance, a Steve Langmack was killed on that trip. He was the |
| 2:18.8 | newest guy in the troop. He was my pre-ranger instructor, right? If he hadn't been in the unit, |
| 2:24.3 | he would have been at that point a platoon sergeant or born. So that was kind of the vibe, |
| 2:29.9 | like every assault there was like, if I wasn't here, I'd be a platoon sergeant. Or if I wasn't |
| 2:34.6 | here, I'd be like a very senior weapon squad leader or I'd be a first sergeant, right? |
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