Michael Montoya - I Left my Foot in Ukraine
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🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 147 minutes
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Summary
Michael Montoya is a veteran with over 15 years of experience in military and security sectors, specializing in EOD/IEDD/CIED/HMA operations. Michael's extensive experience has seen him providing training and operational support across the globe, from the volatile terrains of Iraq and Kurdistan to the challenging environments of Africa and Pakistan. As an independent contractor, his work under the U.S. State Department’s AFRICAP and GPOI initiatives has empowered over 600 trainees.
We took a deep dive into Montoya's extensive career, from his days in the United States Marine Corps serving as an EOD team leader in Iraq and Afghanistan to his work as a senior trainer and analyst managing multimillion-dollar budgets for training programs. Michael is now focusing his efforts on Invictus Global Response, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mine action, capacity building, and humanitarian aid in conflict-affected regions. During a recent clearance operation in Ukraine, he tragically lost his foot to a landmine, and is now home rehabbing and preparing for continued operations with IGR.
https://www.invictusglobalresponse.org/
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everybody? Welcome back. You know what we're going to do. |
| 0:03.0 | We're going right now to the Black RifleCcom page. |
| 0:06.0 | Looks like they are doing a bite to get to free. |
| 0:09.0 | That doesn't suck. I wonder what that applies to. Let's go to shop now. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, looks like |
| 0:13.7 | coffee bags. All right, that was very specifically one thing. We're going back to the |
| 0:17.6 | main page. I actually should have known that because it says coffee steep bags. |
| 0:21.8 | I've used these before both hot and cold actually if you are somebody |
| 0:26.0 | who goes backcountry I've used it on motorcycle trips camping trips, hiking trips, any time that I'm away from my normal coffee making supplies, |
| 0:35.0 | these things are pretty bad-ass. |
| 0:36.0 | All you need is water, if you like hot coffee, the ability to heat it up, and you are good to go. |
| 0:40.8 | The traditional roast slider, let's see what they got in the apparel section. |
| 0:47.4 | Yep, the apparel that I talked about on last weekend. Let's back out of this. |
| 0:51.7 | I'm curious if they have any new gear. Let's click on that. |
| 0:55.2 | Oh hell yeah. Mugs, Yetis, all sorts of containers and vessels that you can enjoy your coffee in. |
| 1:03.0 | This reticle coffee canister that I'm highlighting right now, |
| 1:05.0 | that's what I keep my beans in at the house. |
| 1:07.0 | Super easy to use and it has a little bit of a vacuum seal to that bad boy. |
| 1:11.0 | Keeps the beans very, very fresh. |
| 1:14.8 | Bottom line, if you love coffee and brands that are founded by amazing individuals that |
| 1:20.9 | continue to give back to veteran causes. I cannot |
| 1:23.0 | recommend black rifle coffee enough. Go to black rifle coffee.com and |
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