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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.

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• - 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