Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal | Navy Chef | Blinded in IED Blast | Firm Founder | Aaron Hale



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At present we hear one in every of our most inspirational Fight Tales from Aaron Hale, an Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal tech who was blinded throughout an IED blast. Aaron later contracted meningitis and misplaced his listening to as effectively. You’ll wish to really feel sorry for him and, in the event you’re like me, your self as effectively, however he actually has one of the crucial infectious and galvanizing outlooks you’ll ever hear.

Aaron began his army journey doing precisely what he at all times wished to by studying to cook dinner as a Navy chef in Italy. After 9/11, nevertheless, he felt he wasn’t doing sufficient to contribute to the fight happening in Iraq and Afghanistan. He made a deliberate option to grow to be an EOD tech and it fairly actually modified your complete course of his life. There was a time limit the place his spouse needed to spell out each single letter of each phrase she wished to say to him within the palm of his hand to speak as a result of he was, as he put it, trapped with out the power to see or hear.

This episode took me by a spread of feelings and tears. Aaron’s story in regards to the final time he received to bodily see his son and his household earlier than the blast jogged my memory of simply how nice so many people have it in life and to not take it without any consideration.

I hope this episode takes you thru your individual vary of feelings and helps put a few of your individual issues – that may not be so important in any case – into perspective the way in which it did for me.

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Present Notes:
00:00 – Intro
00:50 – Visitor Introduction (Aaron Hale)
02:14 – Interview begins
02:40 – overcoming disabilities and demotivation
07:00 – Medical logistics
12:16 – Childhood and optimism
19:17 – 4Patriots
20:37 – Recruitment and cooking
31:13 – Culinary being deployed in Italy
33:20 – Troopers and cooks
37:01 – Greatest Branches meals
41:21 – Army E.O.D. path
52:37 – Jobset of an E.O.D.
59:50 – The tech facet of E.O.D.
01:15:07 – First deployment
01:08:06 – Encounters with explosives
01:09:02 – First time dealing with an I.E.D.
01:11:08 – Advanced occasions as an E.O.D.
01:14:11 – Caught within the explosion
01:24:55 – Ideas whereas below fireplace and aftermath
01:40:35 – E.O.D. expectations
01:42:53 – animosity for the enemy
01:44:45 – Regrets
01:45:42 – Extrodinary Delights and Meningitus
01:56:06 – Favourite dessert on the menu
01:57:44 – Different companies
02:01:05 – Sentimental merchandise
02:01:51 – Do all of it once more
02:03:20 – Listener feedback and shout outs

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