Thom Shea is a retired Navy SEAL, sniper, and Senior Chief who served with and led SEALs in a number of fight excursions from Kosovo to Iraq to Afghanistan, together with brutal preventing in Helmand Province for which he was awarded the Silver Star.
Throughout this preventing, not solely was he main different SEALs by means of a number of the most difficult fight engagements of our time, however he additionally had an interesting sniper on sniper engagement by which he went up in opposition to a really correct and succesful international fighter sniper.
After Afghanistan, Thom oversaw the famed SEAL Sniper course. Since leaving the SEALs, Thom and his spouse Stacy conduct intensive management occasions for fortune 500 firms. He has written two books, together with an unimaginable memoir (Unbreakable) that offers a firsthand account of the lifetime of a SEAL in fight.
His books and this interview are chalked stuffed with classes for leaders and troopers alike. Should you loved Todd Opalski’s interview, you’re going to like Thom’s story and lifestyle.
You will discover Thom at:
Unbreakable Management – (https://www.unbreakableleadership.com)
Instagram – frogmanout (https://www.instagram.com/frogmanout)
Fb – Thom Shea (https://www.fb.com/thom.shea.9)
Books:
Unbreakable – (https://www.amazon.com/Unbreakable-Navy-SEALs-Approach-Life-ebook/dp/B00WRES1SA/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&key phrases=unbreakable+guide+thom+shea&qid=1610984902&sr=8-1)
Three Easy Issues – (https://tinyurl.com/5695v5hk)
Present Notes:
0:00 – Intro
2:16 – Beginning out. Unbreakable.
3:40 – Rising up looking, trapping, and outdoors in one of many ‘greatest occasions to be a child in America’ making $6K at 9 years previous.
9:09 – Coaching SEAL Snipers. Half arrived by no means having touched a gun, which is sweet for capturing.
11:41 – Thom comes from a “horrifically army” household drawing a veteran lineage by means of to the beginnings of America.
14:33 – Easy methods to cope with failing out of West Level and following a dream to turn out to be a SEAL moderately than following another person’s path.
18:15 – Perseverance in preventing to turn out to be a SEAL and failing BUDS 4 occasions.
23:45 – “Oh, you failed once more,” from household after failing out of BUDS.
28:42 – Should you ever failed in what you consider is your dream or been instructed no and want some inspiration to maintain going, take heed to this. After having failed out 4 occasions from BUDS, Thom would sit within the Admiral’s workplace for his lunch break for TWO years to request authorization to return. He finally accomplished Class 207.
32:20 – What’s the “Inside Dialogue” and why is it necessary? Whenever you do tough issues, it’s not about how onerous the factor is, however the way you beat your self down within the course of.
38:32 – First expertise in fight is the start of the air struggle in Kosovo doing a rescue as an E-5 SEAL Group 2 Sniper to rescue Chris Hill, the U.S. Ambassador in Macedonia. Described as a ‘comical sequence of the dumbest issues that would presumably occur.’
42:18 – First time seeing the ‘atrocities of struggle.’
45:07 – What does it imply to be a “breacher” on a SEAL group?
47:08 – First set off pull and kill in fight was described moderately ‘insignificant’ and felt like coaching.
51:07 – Thom’s most tough deployment was in 2009 when he was an E-7 Chief.
51:50 – Extraordinarily attention-grabbing resolution when provided to steer both an ideal group of operators or a bunch that hated one another and couldn’t work collectively.
53:51 – How, as a pacesetter, to develop and provides an opportunity to somebody who didn’t slot in earlier than.
1:02:27 – Six MH-47s dropped 200 Particular Operations and Special Forces right into a single battle in Afghanistan.
1:09:57 – Within the final moments that you just reside, you notice needing and being wanted by others when you don’t have anything left.
1:12:36 – The A-10 is ‘the best fight machine within the historical past of fight machines.’
1:14:20 – How management will help operators after having lived by means of hell and killing 200+ Taliban.
1:16:02 – The basics and keys to steer small groups in fight. The human connection. “You don’t know what’s going to occur to the thoughts.”
1:20:00 – The significance of a can of Copenhagen and the little issues that get you thru onerous occasions.
1:22:53 – Should you’re a small unit chief, significantly an officer, that is one section you must take heed to. What makes an amazing Lieutenant (LT) coming from an previous crusty SEAL?
1:31:50 – Sniper-on-Sniper engagement. A battle inside a battle.
1:39:35 – Description of Three Easy Issues, Thom’s new guide about tips on how to enhance your life.
1:41:36 – The unique title for Unbreakable was Spartan Spouse and as Thom describes, “girls make males.”
1:44:01 – Was there one thing you carried into fight that meant one thing to you?
1:44:41 – Would you do all of it once more?
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