Jeremy Stalnecker, Navy Commendation Medal with “V” Recipient and Co-Founder of Mighty Oaks Foundation

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🗓️ 10 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy was a former USMC officer whose platoon served as the tip of the spear during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He recalls the intense training they had leading up to the invasion and the hurdles he had to get past like fighting at night instead of day. Jeremy also shares how his life after 10 years in the Marines was a total wreck.

He decided to dedicate his life to working in ministry full-time. A decade after leaving the Marines, he reconnected with some of the guys he served with. Jeremy saw how lost they were and realized that his time serving with them did not end when he hung up his uniform for the last time.

He felt it his duty to equip his fellow soldiers with the tools to move forward. This became the catalyst for The Mighty Oaks Foundation, a faith-based nonprofit that works with veterans, active duty service members, and first responders to help them find their true north, deal with PTSD, and adjust to civilian life.

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0:00.0	You're listening to software, radio, special operations, military meals and straight talk with the guys in the community.
0:30.0	Hey, what's going on? It is another episode of software radio and I am your humble to host today.
0:43.0	Rad and I have a very special guest with me, Jeremy Stallmecker, who is a United States Marine Corps infantry officer.
0:51.0	Has some decorations we'll talk about and how he got those.
0:55.0	But first, let's welcome Jeremy to the show. Welcome Jeremy.
0:59.0	Thanks, Rad. Awesome to be with you, man. Looking forward to the conversation.
1:02.0	Yeah. So, you know, I get asked by guest often, like, what's the acronym for software? And maybe my listener never knew. It's a special operation forces report.
1:10.0	So, guys would be deployed. They say, hey, what's a quick software from their command and those guys in like the SF, green berets, seals, high speed teams are given these software reports.
1:22.0	And like, oh, well, this is what's going on in the environment. Now, you're a former Marine officer, correct?
1:28.0	Right. That's right. I try to keep that to myself sometimes, but yes, yes.
1:32.0	Yes. Now, did you ever have to call in and say, hey, what's a software and what's going on and what's crazy going on out there?
1:38.0	Yeah, our, we, so my time in Iraq, we were part of the initial invasion into Iraq. We were moving forward.
1:44.0	So, the forward edge of battle was where we were all of the time. And so, there were the special operations guys who were out in front of us.
1:51.0	And we were constantly getting intel from them. So, reaching out saying, hey, what's going on? What are we about to hit? Yeah, that was our life for basically the entire time I was in Iraq.
1:59.0	How long were you in Iraq?
2:01.0	I was there for six months. So, we were there. We actually went into Kuwait in January of 2003. And then March 19th pushed in.
2:10.0	So, that entire deployment was a six-month deployment. My time in Iraq really was four months, I guess.
2:15.0	We had the Kuwait time sat on the border, bounced back and forth. And then March 19th, March 20th pushed into the country and started making our way to Baghdad.
2:24.0	So, you're literally the tip of the spear that we all sat at home after 9-11. And as you guys went into Iraq, it was you and your companies in the Marines.
2:34.0	We were from Kuwait as the blade of the edge of the tip of the spear, the blade. Right? Like just coming through. So, phase lines, right?
2:44.0	It was a pretty crazy time, man. We were supposed to go in the morning of March 20th. So, it was all a daytime attack. We're going to hit the burn. The burn's going to be breached.
2:53.0	Everything is visual because it's going to be during the day. And then the night before General Mattis, Division Commander, pushed down.
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