The Medevac Podcast: Ep 003 Daniel Vargas

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🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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David Reid and Christian Meyers welcome Air Force veteran Daniel Vargas to The Medevac Podcast. Daniel discovered his passion for helping wounded veterans while he was still serving on active duty and has since continued his work in the civilian world as the president and founder of Operation Triage. Operation Triage is a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping veterans in need to become productive members of their communities through advocacy, financial relief, and home remodeling.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Minivac podcast,
0:02.5	Service of injury, rescue, recovery,
0:06.0	and resiliency.
0:08.0	Find more at Minivacpodcast.com.
0:26.0	Oh, we're going. We're going.
0:28.0	All right. Well, welcome. Welcome to the Minivac podcast, everyone. Welcome.
0:33.0	We have a very informational guest today, David Vargas, or Daniel Vargas. Excuse me.
0:38.0	I've been called worse. I'm David. So I mean, I get the confusion by my co-host, David Reed,
0:43.0	and Daniel Vargas is our guest today. He spent over 20 years in the Air Force in multiple
0:48.3	support roles. He is since retired. And now he runs Operation Triage, a nonprofit, helping
0:55.8	out first responders, veterans with an active duty, even active duty military, an active duty
1:01.8	military. Awesome. What? Welcome, Dan. Some pretty awesome stuff. I know we got to catch
1:06.0	up before the show and you got a lot going on, which is great. But first and foremost, tell
1:11.2	us about your time in the military. Oh, man, I came in before y'all two were even born.
1:15.9	I came in in 1986. Hey, just being honest, that tequila and I didn't happen yet.
1:22.8	Wait a minute. What do you think's happening after the show? Definitely. Yeah, I came in
1:28.9	in 86. First to you Simon, like we were saying, was Curlin Air Force Base and Albuquerque?
1:34.1	Yeah, I loved it. I loved it. Great assignment and got to work at my first shot was Air Force
1:39.9	Contraint Man Division and then transferred over to the flying training wing where they trained
1:44.2	the pair rescues in the combat. Out of the 58s. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. I was 15, 50th back then
1:49.4	and then changed over to 58th. But great experience. Loved it and then deployed to the first
1:54.8	goal for from there. Okay. And you know, it's different than the way the Army deployed.
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