The Medevac Podcast: Ep 002 Kris Tomes

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Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

David Reid and Christian Meyers welcome Kris Tomes to The Medevac Podcast to discuss rescue missions from the perspective of the rescuer. Kris is a Pararescue Airmen, also known as PJs. PJs are highly trained experts with the capability to rescue and provide medical treatment to downed military personnel anywhere in the world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MetaVact podcast,
0:02.5	Service of injury, rescue, recovery,
0:06.0	and resiliency.
0:08.0	Find more at MetaVactpodcast.com
0:26.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the MetaVact podcast.
0:28.0	My name is Christian Myers and I am one of your hosts today.
0:30.0	Joined by my co-host David Reed.
0:33.0	Today we have a special guest, Chris Thomas.
0:35.0	He's currently a pair of rescuements
0:37.0	and then United States Air Force has been for about 13 years.
0:41.0	And he's now the first special warfare recruiter as a PJ.
0:47.0	Can you talk about that a little bit?
0:50.0	What is a PJ?
0:51.0	What is a PJ?
0:52.0	What is a PJ?
0:53.0	I'm Armageddon.
0:54.0	I have no idea.
0:55.0	Back in Vietnam, that symbol PJ was our call sign
0:59.0	on the aircraft back then.
1:01.0	So kind of adopted that and we're a pair of rescue jumpers.
1:05.0	But now we're basically it's a pair of rescuements.
1:07.0	So if I were to explain this in layman terms,
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