Ret. Green Beret Zach Garner - Part 1 | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 138
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Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2023
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:47 - Dad Was a Styx Fan
09:14 - Morning Routine
13:42 - Born in Illinois
20:16 - Ground Rules
26:55 - Becoming a Forward Observer
36:05 - Multiple Launch Rocket System
41:35 - Overnight House Clears
53:20 - Then I Got Stabbed at a Kenny Chesney Concert
01:01:09 - A Single Dude in Germany
01:14:51 - Special Forces
01:20:48 - Firefight in the Valley
01:28:32 - Everybody Loves an A-10
01:38:41 - The First Seizure
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| 0:31.0 | My eyes rolled back in my head, my face was turning purple, |
| 0:35.0 | and I was having a full-blown seizure. |
| 0:40.0 | We were doing clearing operations, going village to village, sweeping through looking for insurgents. |
| 0:45.0 | I remember thinking I need to climb up on this. |
| 0:49.0 | It was an RG-33. Big trucks, it's, I don't know, what do you say, 12, 13 feet off the ground. |
| 0:55.0 | The next thing I know is a Medevac bird is landing on my face. |
| 1:00.0 | At this point, I'm conscious I've got an IV in and I looked at my medic and I was like, |
| 1:04.0 | I'm not funny on the helicopter. |
| 1:06.0 | All of the regular army doctors left the room and the SF bed team that we had came in |
| 1:11.0 | and they told me, hey, we think you had a seizure. |
| 1:15.0 | But if we report this as a seizure, your career's over. |
| 1:18.0 | So, we're going to write this off as you were dehydrated, sleep deprived, and you passed out. |
| 1:26.0 | And you're going to go back out to your team and we're just going to hope that this doesn't happen again. |
| 1:38.0 | Welcome to Mike Drop, the podcast where relevancy is irrelevant, and we don't give a shit about your feelings. |
| 1:47.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, as always, it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next guest to the podcast. |
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