Jimmy Settle is a retired Air Drive Pararescueman (“PJ”) credited with saving 38 lives and aiding in saving 28 others in fight, along with saves within the Alaskan wilderness.
He racked up over 270 fight search and rescue hours in Afghanistan, the place he earned an Air Medal with Valor for his life saving heroics and a Purple Coronary heart after being shot within the head (and returning to fight 24 hours later).
Jimmy catalogues these and different close to loss of life experiences in his guide, “By no means Stop: From Alaska Wilderness Rescues to Afghanistan Firefights as an Elite Particular Ops PJ,” the place he shares the friendships, hardships, pranks, and occasions that modified his life, from being an elite athlete competing on the Naval Academy to finishing the daunting PJ pipeline to dwell saving ops in probably the most austere environments.
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0:00 Intro.
5:47 – What’s a PJ and the army’s pararescue.
13:33 – Launched to PJ by Chris Robertson.
19:43 – “Cardiac Occasion” aka the primary (of many) close to loss of life expertise.
27:56 – “19 yr previous choice” to depart the Naval Academy after invasive surgical procedure on the guts.
30:46 – The PJ “Pipeline” of elite coaching, INDOC (80%+ attrition price), Fight Divers Course, Airborne, Free Fall, SERE, Pararescue EMT and Apprenticeship.
48:05 – “Cones” aka unlucky trainees going by the pipeline (higher than a Toad, not but a Maroon Beret).
50:17 – Covertly free climbing Fort Benning’s 250’ Leap Towers for a prank.
52:48 – The “Inexperienced Toes” picture utilized by PJs, an homage to Vietnam helos.
58:13 – The primary time engaged on a dwell affected person (intubation) in Philadelphia in a paramedic apprentice program.
1:05:51 – The primary rescue from an plane as a PJ in Alaska at evening within the wilderness to assist a lady who had an accident with an ATV, chainsaw, and a scalping.
1:09:51 – One other close to loss of life expertise whereas coaching in Alaska’s Cook dinner Inlet at evening.
1:27:29 – Supporting Operation Bulldog Chunk in Kunar province, Afghanistan in November 2010.
1:29:21 – One other close to loss of life expertise getting shot within the head.
1:36:29 – Going again into fight 24 hours after being shot within the head to rescue dozens of individuals.
1:48:48 – Saving two troopers on a chopper and considering, “That is my function in life.”
1:49:17 – Shedding reminiscence after getting shot within the head and the way it creeped in “insidiously.”
1:53:12 – Describing the issue in transitioning from the service to the civilian world and the lack of identification.
1:56:36 – Dwelling in a automotive within the Commissary car parking zone till a senior enlisted airmen intervened.
2:02:06 – “With out hesitation” would do it once more.
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