SDP 44: Use of force
Mind Of The Warrior
Dr Mike Simpson
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Tim Kennedy’s legend began at his local Army recruiter’s office on September 12th, 2001. His training to earn his Green Beret was featured in the book “Chosen Soldier.” Kennedy is now a Ranger qualified Special Forces Sniper with deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and multiple other deployments around the world. He is the only soldier to win the grueling 3 day All Army Combatives Tournament three times. Kennedy has a black belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Modern Army Combatives. He is also one of the top ranked mixed martial arts fighters in the world, a position he achieved while simultaneously serving his country at the highest levels of special operations. He is currently ranked among the top Middleweights in the UFC. Tim has been featured on many television shows, most recently “Hunting Hitler” on the History Channel
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 with Tim Kennedy on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome back to the sheepdog project podcast |
| 0:16.4 | Doc Simpson here with you as always what a crazy 2018 it has been and the year is finishing crazy busy I mean by that so |
| 0:29.2 | just got back to a trip to Washington DC our nation's capital. |
| 0:33.0 | Went out there for the, now as a biannual or semi-annual, I can never figure it out. |
| 0:39.0 | I don't know which one it means every six months. |
| 0:41.0 | You think, does biannual mean twice a year or every |
| 0:44.3 | other year I can never figure that out so it's one of the two meetings that they have every |
| 0:49.5 | year of the committee for tactical Emergency Casualty Care. |
| 0:53.7 | So on the military side, we have the Committee |
| 0:58.5 | on Tactical Combat Casualty Care, |
| 1:00.9 | and then the Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care is the civilian equivalent. |
| 1:05.0 | So this is doctors that are directors ofMS systems, |
| 1:12.6 | SOT teams, wealth of experience, |
| 1:16.8 | a lot of military experience, a lot of law enforcement experience. |
| 1:20.5 | Great pleasure to be in the room |
| 1:22.2 | with a lot of like-minded individuals, people |
| 1:24.7 | that are forging the way ahead, and how we get the word out to people on what |
| 1:30.3 | they should be doing. Not only agencies agencies not only first responders not only law |
| 1:34.8 | enforcement SWAT teams but civilians as well so these are the guys that are |
| 1:39.4 | set in the standard for that the guys and girls that are set in the standard for that |
| 1:42.3 | it was a real privilege to be in the room for that the guys and girls that are setting the standard for that. |
| 1:43.0 | It was a real privilege to be in the room with them, get to interact with them, |
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