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David Goggins – Toughest Man Alive

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One of the Toughest men alive David Goggins tells his story about his military training and military fitness.

David Goggins Video Transcript:

Every day of my entire life I live like it was day one, week one of BUD/s. So I prioritize trying to win the battle in the morning. So I always win the battle in the morning, So I get up in the morning time, and every morning I go for a run. That’s the first thing I do every morning – I haven’t taken a day off of running since December 2016. Alright, so, you’re a retired Navy SEAL, You went through the Air Force special operations community, You deployed to Iraq, you broke the world record for pull-ups, You ran a few ultra-marathons – so what do you say when you’re introducing yourself to people – like how do you introduce yourself to people with all of that? Well, kind of how you said it right there. Basically, I’m David Goggins. So what got you interested in the SEAL community in the first place? What caught your eye? Well, I was spraying for cockroaches when I got out of the Air Force, I was spraying for cockroaches, I was about 297lbs to be exact, And I saw this Discovery Channel show on TV, And that Discovery Channel show was just guys going through Hell Week, And I saw these guys freezing – a lot of water, And I was like, you know what, it brought back memories of me going through pararescue training. So at 297 pounds I decided to try to be a Navy SEAL. And to make a long story short, I had to lose 106 pounds in less than 3 months. And that’s where it became challenging for me. So I knew that to lose 106 pounds in less than three months, You’re looking at 3,500 calories is a pound. So I was basically doing a whole bunch of math in my head. So I knew that if I were to stop or be stagnant, there was no calories being burned. So I basically trained all day long. So that’s how it went, and before I knew it, I had lost the weight. But when you lose 106 pounds in less than three months, you’re not in the best shape of your life. You know, you got a lot of cardio in But you know, you’re just not in great, great, shape. So my first place in the Navy was BUD/s. So, you know, my first indoctrination to the real Navy was BUD/s. So how did that go, then, getting to BUD/s then, not being in the greatest shape, And maybe not necessarily healthy? I wasn’t in bad shape, but my body was broken. Because when you go from 297lbs to 191lbs, You know, in that time period, and you’re running, You’re starting to break yourself – so I broke myself before I even got into Navy SEAL training. My first time going through BUD/s, I got to Hell Week, I got stress fractures and double pneumonia. I got rolled back to day one, week one. Second time going through BUD/s, I actually fractured my patella, Before I got to Hell Week, made it through Hell Week with a fractured patella, Went two weeks after Hell Week, Because I didn’t want to get rolled back to day one, week one. But I couldn’t keep up with the class, Got rolled back to day one, week one, after Hell Week, And then I went through my third time, and I graduated with that class. We had a guy die during that Hell Week – Class 235. So that’s kind of how it happened. So mentally what did that feel like to keep getting rolled back, To, keep going through Hell Week – where did you go, when you were doing that, in your mind? What I started figuring out, going through BUD/s, Was that the harder something is, The more it was challenging my mind. So I had to find different ways to stay in the fight, And while staying in the fight, it got me tougher, and tougher, and tougher So I’m actually happy I went through 3 Hell Weeks, I never examined myself. And as a human being you have to examine yourself, and And I guess the best place to examine yourself is Navy SEAL Hell Week. Three times. So I got to examine myself a few times. So it started there – it started in Hell Week And it’s still going now at 43 years old. Once you graduated, after getting your trident, where did you go? I graduated in August, 2001 – August 10th, 2001 And as we all know, less than a month later, September 11th happened. So once that happened My guys were gone to Airborne school, We got the word about it, I went to SQT, Seal Qualification Training, and after that I went to Seal Team Five. And then my second platoon, we got the call, We went to Iraq, I was with SEAL Team Five, Bravo Platoon again, Got the second call, went to Iraq, so that’s how that went down. I understand that you lost some friends during Operation Red Wings – what did that feel like to you? Being that I went through 3 Hell Weeks, I knew every guy that died on that operation. So, the story touched me so much I wanted to find a way to raise money for their families. So I found the Special Operations Warrior Foundation; if you’re a special operator and you die, It will give a hundred percent tuition to your son or daughter to go to college. Great foundation. So now I got to find something to do to raise money for it. So I started Googling all these different races, and I found the Badwater 135. So it’s a 135-mile run through Death Valley in the summer time. I had no idea about ultra running – I’m 250 pounds, I’m a big meathead, So here I am calling this guy up on Wednesday – he says, “hey you gotta qualify for this race” I go, “how do you qualify?” He says “you gotta run 100 miles in 24 hours or less.” And I’m like, “is that even possible?” I haven’t run over 20 miles the whole year. Going through BUD/s I started realizing that you have to control your mind in these situations. So at Mile 70 when I was in the worst shape of my entire life I was able to draw on being calm. And I was able to finish the race. What’s your current daily workout routine? Like, say on a long day when you have plenty of time to do whatever. Well, even if I don’t have plenty of time, I get it in – I make it. So I prioritize trying to win the battle in the morning. So I always win the battle in the morning. So I get up in the morning time, and every morning I go for a run. That’s the first thing I do every morning – I haven’t taken a day off of running since December 2016. Every day – up in the morning. So I also stretch out every day for about 2-3 hours. Every day. I’ve missed two days in about 5 and a half/6 years. So that’s just my routine – and about 4 days of the week I’m in the gym hitting the weights. Because you can’t just be a runner. So you know, this is every single day The monotony of my life – but you know, this is what builds discipline. You know, and I’m not telling everybody to do this. But this is my lifestyle – this is how I build self-discipline. What are some of the most valuable things you learned in the Navy? Be it about yourself or… You know, some of the most valuable things – some people say teamwork and stuff like that, Teamwork is big. But I learned that you have to be a good individual first. You have to triple down on your weaknesses Because a lot of times – like, you always count on your buddy next to you to help you out Sometimes that buddy is not going to be there. You gotta make sure that you’re a jack of all trades and a master of all trades. And that’s one thing – you got you gotta have your buddy’s back and they gotta have your back But you’ve got to work on yourself every single day And that’s one thing that the military really has to triple down on Is something that we’re missing nowadays a lot, and that’s that total accountability of every day Going back to Boot Camp in your mind. You know, Boot Camp sucks. SEAL training sucks – all these things suck – and people are so happy to get out of it But that’s what makes you good. Remember how you were when you got out of Boot Camp? You were all kind of robotic, and locked in, And then it slowly goes away – you get comfortable, you start to sag a little bit You start to lose that militant discipline. That’s the one thing I learned not to do in the military. The military teaches you these great codes, ethics, morals, values… You’ve got to continue to work on those – like everything, it’s a muscle. You stop going to the gym, you stop running – you get weak. The military teaches you these great values of strength and honor and code and all these other things But what we do, is we don’t keep up the discipline of all that stuff. And we lose it. So the one thing I learned is to not lose that Thing that Boot Camp, SEAL training, whatever you went through, whatever your A-School is, Keep that discipline up. That’s the biggest thing..

Jon Stewart Speaks Out Against Military Burn Pits

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Jon Stewart speaks out to help veterans that were exposed to burn pits overseas. Video Transcript: I’M JON STEWART POST 9-11, THERE WAS A LONG FIGHT TO GET NEW YORK CITY’S FIRST RESPONDERS APPROPRIATE HELP TO PAY FOR MEDICAL COSTS FROM THE LONG-TERM TOXIC EXPOSURES TO THE COLLAPSED BUILDINGS IN LOWER MANHATTAN. THE NATION AND EVENTUALLY CONGRESS STOOD BEHIND OUR HEROES BUT NOW MORE THAN EVER WE NEED TO FOCUS OUR SUPPORT ON THE POST 9-11 WAR VETERANS WHO HAVE BEEN SUFFERING FROM THE DEBILITATING EFECTS OF THE MASSIVE TOXIC BURN PITS THEY WERE EXPOSED TO DURING SERVICE OVERSEAS. THE EFFECTS, HAVE BEEN HORRIFIC. AFFECTED VETERANS FACE INCREASINGLY COMPLEX HEALTH PROBLEMS THAT HAVE ALREADY LEFT A GROWING NUMBER OF THEM UNABLE TO WORK. 3 POINT 5 MILLION VETERANS SERVICE MEMBERS MAY HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY OUR GENERATIONS “AGENT ORANGE.” HEALTH PROBLEMS LIKE LUNG DISEASES, CANCERS, TOXIC BRAIN INJURIES MANY OF THEM VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT THE 9-11 FIRST RESPONDERS HAD FACED MANY OF THEM EVEN DYING AS A RESULT OF THESE COMPLICATIONS. IF YOU ARE ONE OF OUR VETS WHO IS SUFFERING … WE NEED TO GET INTO THE FIGHT FOR YOU … NOW. FORTUNATELY, THERE ARE ORGANIZATIONS LIKE BURN PITS 360 THAT HAVE BEEN FIGHTING TO GET THE APPROPRIATE FUNDING AND HELP FOR OUR FORGOTTEN HEROES WHO ARE LONG OVERDUE ON GETTING THE MEDICAL AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE THEY GRAVELY NEED. GO TO WWW.BURNPITS 360.ORG TODAY TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SIGNING UP FOR THE V-A REGISTRY AND YOUR FREE V-A BURN PIT EXAMS. W-W-W DOT BURN PITS 360 DOT ORG YOU DESERVE MORE THAN THE COUNTRY’S GRATITUDE FOR YOUR SERVICE. YOU DESERVE FULL MEDICAL BENEFITS TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR ILLNESS. TOGETHER WE ARE GOING TO WORK TO GET YOU JUSTICE AND TO GET YOU HEALED THANKS.

Buying a home with a VA Loan

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Buying a home with a VA loan requires the 3 P’s, process, patience and persistence. If you would like to buy or build with a VA guaranteed home loan knowing the process will make things a lot easier and help with the patience and persistence.

VA Home Buying Process Steps

Here are 6 steps when buying a home with a VA loan.
  • Find a VA loan specialist
  • Get Preapproved
  • Confirm Eligibility
  • Find a Real estate agent
  • Get a VA appraisal
  • Handle VA Funding Fee
Finding the right VA home loan lender is key when purchasing a home. It can make a big difference in the VA loan process. Not everything goes as planned so having the right experienced professional will make a huge difference when issues come up.

MRE Food – Its Not for Everyone

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In this instalment of Veterans Voice Jason interviews Jeff Newton with National VA Loans. Jason convinces Jeff to try some MRE food however poor Jeff has got a really week stomach. Watch the video above to see how Jeff reacts to tasting the MRE food.

John Chapman – The First Medal of Honor Ever Recorded

John Chapman a true war hero is recorded in this video in his final acts. A truely incrediable story. Rest in peace brother!

John Chapman Video Transcript

John Chapman a US air force combat controller and the seals are attempting to rescue their lost teammate you’ll watch Chapman’s heroic actions as he saves the lives of his entire SEAL team and then another 18 members of a Quick Reaction Force earning America’s highest award the Medal of Honor. Chapman and the seals exfilled are mh-47 helicopter John is the second individual to exit and immediately moves in the direction of the summit he can be seen moving off to the right of the screen alone the team is taking heavy fire from every direction as indicated by the arrows as Chapman begins engaging targets you can see spent cartridges ejecting from his m4 Chapman then begins closing with the enemy forcing his way upslope in knee and thigh deep snow he is constantly under fire as he does this Chapman’s Team Leader begins to close on Chapman following his trail through the snow the dark mass above Chapman is a fortified bunker containing two enemy fighters each armed with ak-47s who are firing down on the team in the darkness this bunker will come to be known as bunker number one to the left of the tree and bunker one is another gray mass this is a rock outcropping that came to be called the boulder between bunker 1 and this Boulder can be seen the body of slain seal Neil Roberts the man Chapman and the others are attempting to recover Chapman still alone and closest to the enemy pauses to engage targets as his team leader follows him but never actually catches up with him Chapman on his own now makes the decision to charge directly into the enemy bunker despite withering point-blank fire Chapman now literally on top of the enemy engages the two combatants and kills them saving the lives of the remaining seals he does this from a distance of no more than ten feet these actions by themselves earned him his first Medal of Honor he then climbs into and takes control of the bunker having cleared the immediate threat Chapman is then joined by his team leader in bunker one you can then see Chapman and his team leader engaging the next bunker known as bunker – which is situated to the left edge of the screen this bunker manned by a handful of Chechen and Uzbek fighters also contains a heavy PKM machine gun hand grenades and rocket-propelled grenades John Chapman is shot twice at this time in the torso and collapses incapacitated you are now looking at a new angle and at the left of the screen can be seen the two and fireteam and team leader on top of the boulder just below it is bunker one with the mortally wounded chapman one seal can be seen firing his modified m60 machine gun from the hip into bunker two on the right side of the screen until he is struck by grenade shrapnel and tumbles 10 feet off the top of the boulder collapsing at the feet of his team leader thus setting off a chain of events that would lead to the seals abandoning Chapman on the summit the wounded seal and the team leader can be seen conferring about his injuries moments later the seals decide to retreat from the summit because their position is untenable in the face of continued massive enemy firepower they can be seen moving toward the right side of the screen and passing the body of Neil Roberts unfortunately the seals do not pass John Chapman who is above them an inside bunker one this angle shows three seals in a triangle the larger black heat signature is a smoke grenade just to its left as a donkey and dead al-qaeda fighter killed by Chapman the steepness of the mountain can be seen as the seals begin to slide down the near shear face the team leader desperate for relief and now with two wounded teammates asks for uncontrolled airstrikes from an orbiting airforce ac-130 gunship the impacts you see are from 105 millimeter howitzer rounds being fired onto the ridge top in order to save the remaining seals because neither the seals nor gunship know Chapman is alive he is experiencing these detonations from his position at approximately in the morning Chapman recovers and begins to engage the enemy bunker one is on the right side center of the screen and bunker two to the left near the screen Center it will never be known what caused his incapacitation and recovery of the two rounds that originally wounded him at least one was mortal and at this time he is experiencing severe blood loss and shock despite that he begins his one-man stand against two dozen enemy combatants during this time Chapman initiates a series of radio calls many of which are heard by a fellow combat controller and teammate of his and Delta Force operators on a nearby summit despite this combat controllers replies Chapman never acknowledges weather because of damage to his equipment or himself will never be known this new angle and footage shows Chapman at the top identified by the green dot under the tree at bunker one the lower center of the screen shows the first enemy fighter who is about to charge Chapman in the hopes of killing the American the timestamp at the bottom shows it is now in the morning and fully light he’s been fighting alone now for 40-plus minutes and has received more gunshot and shrapnel wounds as a result of the fierce combat this scene shows the second of several enemy charges in this stunning display of determination and courage Chapman can be seen fighting hand-to-hand with the fighter in the larger screen display can be seen additional enemy moving on to the summit but right now John Chapman is fighting for his life six minutes later in this new shot Chapman can hear another helicopter approaching the summit he is in the bottom center of the screen underneath the tree and can be seen in the magnified inset box as he begins his desperate final stand to save the lives of the 18 men on the helicopter the red dots are enemy fighters John begins engaging the enemy in multiple directions and is rapidly approaching the last of his ammunition the helicopter contains a quick reaction force comprised of Rangers pararescueman and another combat controller it is now 613 and the helicopter is short final the enemy is desperately trying to displace Chapman so they can put heavy weapons or rocket-propelled grenades in bunker one while simultaneously engaging the helicopter with the choice to save his life or the lives of his unknown comrades Chapman makes the decision to climb out of the bunker and begin firing in multiple directions as can be seen in the inset suffering from as many as a dozen wounds Chapman is in fact already in the process of dying as he fights the helicopter is struck by a rocket-propelled grenade and makes a remarkable controlled crash just below Chapman and the summit Chapman now off-screen continues to cover his comrades as they pour out of the stricken helicopter some of them are fatally shot as they exited these images with Chapman fighting the enemy at close quarter are the last to show him alive and in this heroic act thus qualifying for his second Medal of Honor ultimately Chapman would expend all but the last few rounds of his ammunition until finally after sixteen bullet and shrapnel wounds Chapman succumbs when he is shot through the heart we will never know his final thoughts or words but what we do know is his decisions and actions single-handedly saved the lives of 23 comrades for more information about John Chapman’s amazing story and the details about this mission visit dan shilling books calm or your favorite book retailer to obtain a copy of the chronicle of his life alone at Don

Army Soldiers Creed

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The ARMY soldiers creed is the staple of every US ARMY soldier. When a young man or women enlists in the ARMY they go through training. During their training they will learn the Soldiers Creed. This creed is an everyday they must follow. Below is the oath they will take and learn.

The ARMY Soldiers Creed Oath

I am an American Soldier I am a Warrior and a member of a team I serve the people of the United States and Live the ARMY Values I will always place the mission first I will never accept defeat I will never quit I will never leave a fallen comrade I am disciplined physically and mentally tough Trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself I am an expert and I am a professional I Stand Ready to Deploy Engage and Destroy the Enemies of the United States of America in Close Combat I am a Guardian of Freedom and the American Way of Life I am an American Soldier