MOTW #144: Daniel Burnett, "Train Like a Ranger"

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

Mma, Philosophy, Combat, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Mixedmartialarts, Military, Fitness, Health, Society & Culture, Medicine

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.

Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.

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0:00.0	Thank you. So, Welcome back to Myter the Warrior everybody brought to you by gray beard performance the life and lifestyle brand for dudes over 40 who want to continue to kick ass and be savages go to gray beard performance
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0:46.4	over 40, you feel like you've lost a step or you're just worried that you may lose one in the future.
0:52.4	Go to Graybeard Performance.com check out everything. Links to buy my book, Honed,
0:56.5	finding your edge as a man over 40, and clinically proven organically sourced supplements that will make you feel like an absolute
1:05.1	fucking savage. And speaking of absolute fucking savages, I have with me via Streamyard to be on his
1:12.1	inaugural presentation on the podcast.
1:15.4	Dan Burnett from Train Like a Ranger.
1:17.0	Brother, thank you so much for coming on.
1:19.3	Thanks for having me.
1:21.0	Let's, we're gonna get right down to it, man. I make everybody relive their childhood trauma so you're going to have to give us your background what what was growing up like for you did you play sports what What led you into your ultimate career path up to and
1:36.6	including what you're doing today for train like a ranger?
1:40.3	Yeah, so I'm from Waksatchi, Texas.
1:45.0	I decided in high school that I wanted to join the military.
1:51.0	Initially, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do but in high school I was kind of going through a tough time, had a breakup, I had wrecked my and I just decided like I wanted to do something super hard to test myself.
2:08.0	I was kind of in this position where I knew we didn't have a lot of money growing up so I knew that my school wasn't going to get paid for so that was another motivator.
2:19.0	So I talked to all recruiters, but when the option 40 came up, I was sold.
2:27.0	So I had talked to an army recruiter, took my as bad, he gave me the option 40.
2:32.0	All I knew about the option 40 was a ranger school. I saw a surviving the cut episode once and I was like that looked hard. I want to do that. So, so it was sold. I went for the option 40. So enlisted in the Army and and really kind of didn't know a lot about the option 40 again. I talk about that a lot in my podcast about you know how little
2:55.9	information there was about ranger regiment I didn't even know there was a ranger regiment
3:00.1	whenever I came into it now it seems that a lot more people know what the
3:03.6	Ranger Regiment is. So I knew I was going to Ranger School. I didn't know that I
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