MOTW #57: Navy SEAL Will Chesney
Mind Of The Warrior
Dr Mike Simpson
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
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 | Hey everybody welcome back to mind of the warrior dock with you here as always really |
| 0:17.3 | excited today very special guest Navy SEAL author canine handler is going to tell us all about it. |
| 0:24.7 | You probably seen him, I'm sure you're following him on social media, I'm sure you've seen |
| 0:27.8 | him in the news lately, as his book is really taken off. |
| 0:32.1 | And he is gracious enough to give us some of his time today. |
| 0:35.0 | Will Chesney joins us on My to the Warrior. |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you for coming on. |
| 0:38.0 | Thanks for having me, man. |
| 0:40.0 | So let's jump right in, man. |
| 0:41.0 | I always make everybody relive childhood trauma so what |
| 0:45.2 | was life like for you growing up you know I always like to get a profile of the |
| 0:49.8 | people that go into the operator lifestyle kind of where they came from. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, I was Texas. |
| 0:55.0 | I was born in Texas. |
| 0:57.0 | Southeast Texas where I was raised. |
| 1:01.0 | Like in a normal childhood I played football. |
| 1:05.0 | A small town. |
| 1:07.0 | I didn't wrestle or swim or anything. |
| 1:10.0 | But, uh, you know, I said normal Texas as a little trailer park yeah I had a |
| 1:17.4 | good job so I worked a little bit in the beginning it's like quick football kind of |
| 1:20.8 | worked when I had to and yeah pretty standard childhood nothing too crazy. |
| 1:28.7 | Like I said there wasn't much around this area to do. I didn't want to go to college. |
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