GREEN BERET Did Field Surgery on His Own Arm With No Doctor & Stayed in the Fight | Ep. 297 | Pt. 1
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Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Firebase Anaconda is like in the worst defensible place you could put a firebase in. |
| 0:05.0 | You had the mountains all around it and you were right up against this little village that |
| 0:10.0 | it shared a wall with you. |
| 0:13.0 | There was one way in, one way out, and it started off very, very simple, just little skirmishes, pop shots, you know, prane spray. |
| 0:20.0 | At some point, that changed. |
| 0:25.9 | You can see people moving and communicating, supporting by fire while they moved. These guys |
| 0:30.9 | knew what they were doing, and they were closing with us. It kicked it off, you know, crazy, |
| 0:35.6 | cracers, explosions, things going on. And round came in, it hit the swing arm, and popped up in, and ricochet up into my arm. Thank God I had my arm on top of the gun. If I hadn't had that there, the round probably hits me in the face. I did what I needed to do, put a turniquet on, cinched it up, And you got right back in the gunfighting because of course what happens they crank it off. |
| 0:55.0 | Did you have a sense of where you fit into the broad scope of what the mission is and |
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| 1:49.7 | Ladies and gentlemen, as always, it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next guest to the podcast. |
| 1:52.8 | He spent 23 years in the Army Special Forces. |
| 1:56.3 | He served in South America and the Middle East as a green beret. |
| 2:18.5 | He was shot in the arm and lost a leg due to injuries in combat recipient of two two Purple Hearts, a bronze star, and the combat infantryman's badge, served in the Florida State Senate and is now the lieutenant governor of Florida, running for the governor of Florida. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage, Jay Collins. Good to be on, Mike. Appreciate it, brother. Yeah, thanks for coming. It's an honor to be able to sit down with you. |
| 2:28.6 | Florida and Texas, I think, a lot of times are pretty comparative in, you know, the culture, the size, the, you know, just types of people that move there. |
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