Jeff Bonner (Fighter Pilot Combat Missions, the Power of Debriefs and the Airline Industry) - Episode 1249
Behind The Shield
James Geering
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
Jeff “Bones” Bonner is a former combat fighter pilot, squadron commander, airline captain, keynote speaker, and creator of The Debrief Advantage™ System. Drawing from decades in high-pressure aviation environments, Jeff teaches leaders and teams how fighter pilots use debriefing, reflection, and intentional adjustment to improve performance, strengthen culture, and grow through adversity.
Jeff is the author of The Daily Debrief™ and a Harvard-trained performance strategist whose work centers on one core belief: experience alone doesn’t make us better — reflection followed by adjustment does. Through his speaking and writing, he helps leaders across public safety, healthcare, athletics, aviation, and business build habits and cultures of continuous improvement.
His mission is simple: help people navigate pressure with greater clarity, resilience, humility, and purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Active 911, a respected leader in the emergency communication and |
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| 0:13.5 | worldwide. Now, as you know, I only bring sponsors on this show who are, A, coming from an altruistic |
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| 0:23.6 | problems and the origin story of active 911 begins with volunteer firefighter and tech entrepreneur |
| 0:30.6 | Joseph Sullivan after missing a critical call from a dispatch era Joseph set out to create a solution to ensure that we are not only dispatched on time, |
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| 1:13.3 | many of us have experienced problems when it came to communication using our traditional radios, |
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| 1:45.1 | to episode 1243 of the Behind the Shield podcast with the creator and founder Joseph Sullivan. |
| 1:54.0 | Welcome to the Behind the Shield podcast. |
| 1:56.0 | As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week it is my absolute honor to welcome on the show, combat fighter pilot, |
| 2:03.1 | commercial pilot and the man behind the debrief advantage, Jeff Bonner. |
| 2:09.6 | Now in this conversation we discuss a host of topics. From his journey into the military, |
| 2:15.9 | the road to becoming a fighter pilot, his missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, |
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