Green Beret Silver Star Destroying Enemy Tanks with a Javelin | 3rd Special Forces Group | Changing Hearts and Minds Podcast | Jeff Adamec

Join our weekly Combat Check-In Newsletter (www.combatstory.com/newsletter) to get a short email from Ryan for people who love and support our veterans, service members, and their families. It has info on a significant event in military and/or intel history, a funny military joke, an update on a current event I'm following, something I'm doing that week in my life, a book I'm reading, a look at an upcoming interview, a reflection on a past episode and more! Today we hear the Combat Story of Jeff Adamec, a longtime Green Beret with six combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan as an 18B and a K9 handler. Jeff earned the Silver Star during the Battle of Debeka Pass in Iraq in 2003 during his first deployment. In his final deployment, Jeff was knocked unconscious by an RPG during a gunfight in Afghanistan while based out of FOB Cobra. He broke his back in four places and was medically retired for those injuries and the TBI sustained as a result. He went on to find success in the corporate sector in network engineering and logistics and hosts the Changing Hearts and Minds podcast that focuses on military history of all eras prior to 1995. Jeff’s understanding of military history and weaponry absolutely shines through in this episode and will, I hope, attract some more listeners to his podcast. I hope you enjoy this fast paced and wide ranging interview with Jeff as much as I did. Find Jeff Online:  - Instagram @chm_podcast https://www.instagram.com/chm_podcast/ and @Jadamec77  https://www.instagram.com/Jadamec77/  - Twitter @CHMPodcast https://www.facebook.com/CHMPodcast/  - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CHMPodcast/  - Changing Hearts & Minds Podcast https://chmpodcast.libsyn.com/website Find Ryan Online: - Ryan’s Linktree https://linktr.ee/combatstory - Merch https://www.bonfire.com/store/combats... - Instagram @combatstory https://www.instagram.com/combatstory - Facebook @combatstoryofficial https://fb.me/combatstoryofficial - Send us messages at https://m.me/combatstoryofficial - Learn more about Ryan www.combatstory.com/aboutus - Intro Song: Sport Rock from Audio Jungle Show Notes: 00:00 - Intro  00:45 - Guest Introduction (Jeff Adamec) 01:46 - Interview Begins  06:10 - Aliens Movie in 1986 as inspiration to join  08:42 - Influential Media 11:29 - Road to enlistment 16:29 - Path to Green Beret 20:28 - Missing 9/11 23:38 - Where did you find your confidence? 26:35 - Time in 3rd Group 30:41 - Deployment in Iraq 37:54 - Combat Story - Events leading up to Battle  of Debecka 50:49 - The Javelin story 01:09:41 - Returning from War  01:10:42 - The Aftermath 01:16:56 - Other deployments  01:19:12 - Dogs  01:21:31 - Combat Story - Bait the Ambush 01:33:37 - The injury  01:44:20 - Life with Traumatic Brain Injury 01:50:36 - Podcast origin and inspiration 01:54:22 - What did you carry into combat? 01:55:54 -  Listener comments and shout outs