Episode 67: Taming Mother Nature with Trent S.

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

News, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Politics

4.9 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Since the beginning of combat, weather has played an enormous role in how it's won and lost. Countless souls have been lost due to miscalculations of weather and it’s impacts on the battlefield. In this episode, I sat down with an active duty Air Force Special Warfare Weatherman. From being in gunfights alongside green berets, to missing windows of helo extract that results in being snowed in for 2 days, a fascinating look at a very small and elite, yet vitally important element of this nations war-fighting tip of the spear.Sponsored by @jockofuel, @projectwarpath, and @resiliencecbd----------Table of Timestamps:0:00 - Show Start7:00 - Breaking the Ice17:00 - A Mormon from Utah26:00 - High School Car Salesman34:00 - Special Ops Weather37:00 - Ambushed in the Valley44:45 - Taming Mother Nature53:45 - Deployment, Round 21:01:00 - Long Days in Qandahar1:01:45 - F*cked Up Forecasts1:10:45 - Crisis Response Force1:20:00 - Presidential Changes1:24:15 - Active Duty COVID Woes1:27:45 - Senior Master Sergeant1:38:30 - Coin Collector1:45:00 - A Message from Mike Drop----------To find out more about Trent, check out his podcast at www.onesready.com.----------Support our sponsors:Origin Labs | www.originmaine.com/origin-labs | @ORIGIN USAProject Warpath | www.projectwarpath.com | @ProjectWarpathGet 15% off your next purchase with Promo Code MIKEDROP15 at www.projectwarpath.comResilience CBD | www.resiliencecbd.com/militaryandfirstresponderdiscount | @resiliencecbdApparel, accessories, protection dogs, and online training at www.trikos.comOnline dog training | https://teamdog.pet Team Dog Facebook | @TeamDogTraining Books, Blog, Media and more from Mike Ritland at www.mikeritland.comThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5531509/advertisement Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6	Our next guest is actually first.
0:35.2	I'm pretty excited to announce this is the first guy
0:38.8	that's still on active duty that's coming on the show.
0:43.9	Keep in mind that because of that,
0:45.3	there's certain details that he's not going to be able to talk about
0:48.7	to the same level of depth that some of our other guests have gone into.
0:53.1	Everything I say is just my own opinion
0:56.6	and not necessarily a representation of the
0:59.1	any official DOD or Air Force messaging.
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1:06.4	I rehearse it all the way up here.
1:07.6	I'm sure.
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