In the present day we hear the Fight Story of Kevin Flike, a former Inexperienced Beret and Purple Coronary heart recipient who served a number of deployments, together with two to Afghanistan.
Kevin was shot within the stomach throughout his second deployment and took years recovering from the related bodily and emotional scars and has proven that it’s potential to not solely totally get better from such an damage, however to thrive.
He’s a graduate of the MIT Sloan College of Administration and Harvard’s Kennedy College of Authorities, sits on the Board of Administrators on the Inexperienced Beret Basis, is a sought out motivational speaker, and shares his story of perseverance via a weblog and outreach sequence known as Wounded by Conflict, which features a documentary on his restoration.
Kevin was really useful to me by Beau Sensible, a former visitor on the present who misplaced two of his brothers to the warfare in Afghanistan, one in every of whom knew Kevin. Kevin and Beau have turn into like brothers. I hope you get pleasure from this inspiring perception from the brink of demise to large success as a lot as I did.
Discover Kevin on-line:
LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinflike/
Instagram @woundedbywar https://www.instagram.com/woundedbywar/
Wounded by Conflict www.woundedbywar.com
Discover Ryan on-line:
Observe on Instagram @combat_stories (https://www.instagram.com/combat_stories/)
E mail ryan@combatstory.com
Study extra about Ryan www.combatstory.com/aboutus
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Present Notes
0:00 – Intro
1:04 – Visitor introduction
2:38 – Particular person in widespread: Beau Sensible (as viewers will recall from a earlier interview who was the only survivor of three boys within the Sensible household to make it house from Afghanistan).
21:03 – Determination to enlist out of faculty through the 18X program.
32:52 – Kevin’s strengths and ideal match with the Inexperienced Berets.
34:50 – Studying to handle expectations when educating, combating, and dealing with others.
39:38 – Fight Story #1: Afghanistan (Kunduz) 2010.
46:11 – Fight Story #2: First firefight.
54:27 – How you can course of the “habit” to warfare wanting again now.
59:55 – Fight Story #3: The mission that led to Kevin’s important damage.
1:09:55 – What goes via your thoughts once you’re shot and assume you would possibly die.
1:15:06 – Wounded By Conflict (www.woundedbywar.com)
1:20:05 – Motivational Chatting with firms, communities, faculties and the Inexperienced Beret Basis
1:21:50 – What did you carry with you into fight?
1:22:40 – Would you do it once more?
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