SEAL Team Seven Canine Handler Chris Cappa Part Two | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 174

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Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Training an animal to move, obey, and communicate effectively is no easy feat - especially when you're serving at the Tip of the Spear. That's where SEAL Team Seven Canine Handler Chris Cappa met Mickey anyway - a scrappy pup that would go on to become an absolute beast on deployment, snagging bites and catching bombs for nearly every op he went on. Of course, that's only part of the story, and finding out the full weight of the military's might in the wake of the coronavirus scare, traveling to foreign lands for plant-based medicines, and joining the Warrior Dog Foundation's new Home with Handlers program all play a part. Just take it from Chris. ---------- Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 01:10 - From SEAL Team 10 to SEAL Team 7 07:11 - Mickey's First Bite 19:55 - Training for Targeted Bitework 30:00 - Dampened Deployment 35:40 - LPO of the MPC 42:59 - No Shot For Me, Thanks 50:56 - Haircuts and Mustaches 54:19 - What Would Have Been Next? 01:03:06 - Ibogaine and Plant-Based Medicines 01:21:50 - The Warrior Dog Foundation's Home with Handlers Program ---------- Support Chris Cappa - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_chriscappa Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WarriorDog/videos/warrior-dog-home-whandler-program/380732714475128/ Support the Warrior Dog Foundation - The Warrior Dog Foundation: https://warriordogfoundation.org/donate Teamdog: https://teamdog.shop/ ---------- Sponsors: Beam Take advantage of Beam's biggest sale of the year and get up to 40% off for a limited time when you go to https://www.shopbeam.com/MIKEDROP and use promo code MIKEDROP at checkout! ---------- ZBiotics Go to zbiotics.com/MIKEDROP to get 15% off your first order when you use MIKEDROP at checkout. ZBiotics is backed with 100% money back guarantee so if you’re unsatisfied for any reason, they’ll refund your money, no questions asked. Remember to head to https://www.zbiotics.com/mikedrop and use the code MIKEDROP at checkout for 15% off. Thank you ZBiotics for sponsoring this episode and our good times. ---------- Fueled by TeamDog | www.mikeritlandco.com | @Teamdog.pet ALL THINGS MIKE RITLAND: SHOP for Fueled By Team Dog Performance Dog Food, Treats, Apparel, Accessories, and Protection dogs - MikeRitlandCo.com - https://www.MikeRitlandCo.com Team Dog Online dog training - TeamDog.pet - https://www.TeamDog.pet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Maestro is now nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and
0:06.5	seven BAFTAS including Best Actor Bradley Cooper and
0:15.0	Bradley Cooper gives the best actress Carrie Mulligan.
0:16.0	Carrie Mulligan is pure perfection
0:19.0	and Bradley Cooper gives the performance of a lifetime.
0:22.0	The Times Hales Maestro as an astonishingly Cooper gives the performance of a lifetime.
0:22.6	The Times hails Maestro as an astonishingly beautiful film.
0:26.2	Maestro, watch now in select cinemas and on Netflix.
0:30.2	And you can't hide from that nose.
0:31.7	Yeah. So, uh, did he find?
0:34.6	Oh yeah, our one like a guy was found.
0:36.8	Yeah.
0:37.8	Getting guys in the bite suit, getting them acclimated with Mickey, how he works, how he operates.
0:46.0	It was legitimate. Now we went from this large base to literally this little compound.
0:51.0	So we just made sure we kept our blade sharp we were running
0:54.2	every day pulling sled and then at the end of that 10-K you know he's got to go get a bite and
0:58.1	he's got to go find a bomb and he smoked after that man he smoked We need to get closer to the front. The only way to do that is to understand that as a handler.
1:07.5	You are a seal first. You will be able to shoot boom and communicate. The 60 pounds on your hips should not change that view at all.
1:15.5	You've got to train to the standard. Because as soon as you say you can't do something
1:19.3	with that dog, you can't do something with the dog. That's simple. In value it like not only, but how many lives did that possibly affect?
1:45.0	You're talking about his handler with beautiful wife, family kids
1:49.0	that got to go home because of that dog sacrifice
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