GABE WANDER | Maintain Eye Contact While Shaking Hands (Ep. 291)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In this episode, we welcome Gabe Wander to the show. Gabe is a retired Army Major and combat veteran. After enlisting in the Army at 17, he eventually became an Officer and Nurse Anesthesiologist with a JSOC unit at Fort Bragg. That unit is the only Tier 1 unit that provides direct medical support to JSOC special missions units. During a workup, he had a near fatal parachute injury that required several emergency surgeries, and he remained hospitalized for nearly a month. During his recovery, he wondered what lessons he would choose to pass on to his children if he were to ever die in combat. That culminated in him writing a children’s book: Maintain Eye Contact While Shaking Hands: A Message to Boys on Being a Man. In this interview, we discuss how he handled the recovery process after his injury, common misperceptions about US Special Operators, his thoughts on the pullout from Afghanistan, why he decided to write a children’s book, what lessons he thinks every man should pass on to their sons, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.0	We've got a special guest on the podcast. His name is Gabe Wanderer. So Gabe is a retired army major and he is a combat veteran.
1:00.0	He enlisted in the army at the age of 17 and he eventually became an officer and also a nurse anesthesiologist with the JSOC unit out of Fort Bragg.
1:07.0	JSOC stands for Joint Special Operations Command and that unit basically is the only tier one unit in the US military that provides direct medical support to JSOC special missions units.
1:17.0	They do that by getting deployed. They're overseas with these guys. It's pretty incredible.
1:22.0	But I do actually want to read this short section from his bio on his website because I think it'll give you a little bit of a better idea as to why we're talking to him.
1:28.0	While training for one of his deployments, he had a near fatal parachute injury that required several emergency surgeries and remained hospitalized for nearly a month.
1:36.0	After a long recovery and just before his next deployment, his wife became pregnant with their first son.
1:41.0	The nightly herring missions combined with the lingering effects of his injuries made him acutely aware of his own mortality.
1:47.0	For the first time, he feared not coming home and so he began to scribble what he'd pass onto his unborn son should he never get to see him.
1:54.0	These weren't just life lessons but tangible actions he could incorporate into his everyday life to both mold him into a good man and help him flourish.
2:01.0	He added to the list with every deployment and pregnancy until safely retired from the army.
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